Benefits

A generous benefit package is offered to residents, including life insurance, disability insurance, and Benefit Planners insurance as well as malpractice insurance, Worker's compensation, social security, employee counseling, and pharmacy/hospital discounts. Other benefits include: three weeks of paid vacation, twelve days of paid sick leave annually, reimbursement of the USMLE Step III fee with a mandatory passing grade, lab coat and scrubs, laundry for lab coats, meal tickets, call rooms, and partial moving expense reimbursement up to $1,000. To view the full benefits document, visit the School of Medicine's GME website.

2011-2012 Salary schedule:

• Reimbursement for moving expenses up to $1,000
• Free parking, well-lit parking area
• Monogrammed lab coats and scrubs
• Educational stipend allowance, $660 per year
• Number of days vacation or personal days: 21 per year
• 401-K Matching Participation
• Hospital and Pharmacy discounts
• Choice of flexible benefits package for Health Insurance/Dependent Life Insurance with choice of additional packages (dental, disability, retirement)
• Disability, Medical Liability and Workers Compensation
• Membership: ACEP, EMRA, SAEM
• Membership: ABIM, ACP
• Full access to medical school library
• The Department pays for ABIM certification examination fees
• The hospital reimburses STEP 3 USMLE examination fees
• Additional educational funding is available to PGY-2s and PGY-3s for poster or paper presentation expenses to approved local/state/national conferences
• Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP)
• Study Guide: Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, Harwood-Nuss.

ATLS and ATLS Instructor, APLS Provider, ACLS Provider and Instructor courses are provided at no cost to the resident.