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, click here.
2007-2008 Salary schedule:
PGY I -- $42,687
PGY II -- $43,790
PGY III -- $45,296
PGY IV -- $46,930
PGY V -- $48,436
Resident Benefits:
- Uniform allowance per year: $100
- Educational stipend allowance per year:
- Educational materials provided outside allowance per year: Residents will be given $2,000 (total) for educational purposes approved by Program Directors over their three-years/five-years of residency.
- Types of insurance overage provided: personal/malpractice
- Number of days vacation or personal days: 21 per year
- Number of sick days: 12 per year
Unique resident benefits for Emergency Medicine Residency and Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine Residency
- Reimbursement for moving expenses up to $1,000 (EM & EM/IM)
- 401-K Matching Participation (EM & EM/IM)
- Free parking, well-lit parking area (EM & EM/IM)
- Monogrammed lab coats and scrubs (EM & EM/IM)
- Employee Health Services (EM & EM/IM)
- Pharmacy discounts (EM & EM/IM)
- Hospital bill discounts (EM & EM/IM)
- Moonlighting opportunities for upper level residents available in local urgent care offices, neighboring emergency rooms (EM and EM/IM)
- Discounted movie and theme park tickets (EM & EM/IM)
- Insurance benefits (EM & EM/IM)
- Choice of flexible benefits package for Health Insurance/Dependent Life Insurance with choice of additional packages (dental, disability, retirement) (EM & EM/IM)
- Disability, Medical Liability and Workers Compensation paid by PCMH. Residents may purchase additional coverage (EM & EM/IM)
- Membership: ACEP, EMRA, SAEM (EM)
- Membership: ABIM (EM/IM)
- The Department pays for ABIM certification examination fees (EM/IM)
- The hospital reimburses STEP 3 USMLE examination fees (EM & EM/IM)
- $100.00 per year for books or journals through our medical bookstore from Internal Medicine (EM/IM)
- $2,000.00 over three years (EM)
- $2,000.00 over five-years (EM/IM)
- Access to Ovid and other resources through health sciences library (EM & EM/IM)
- Access to educational resources web site with free MD consult & New England Journal of Medicine. (EM/IM)
- Additional educational funding is available to PGY-2s and PGY-3s for poster or paper presentation expenses to approved local/state/national conferences (EM/IM)
- Department purchases Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP). MKSAP is a self-study program on Internal Medicine topics used in preparing for the Certifying Examination in Internal Medicine (EM/IM)
- Study Guide: Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, Harwood-Nuss. (EM & EM/IM)
- Access to MKSAP CD-ROM (EM/IM)
- American Board of Emergency Medicine In-Service Training Examination (EM) and American Board of Internal Medicine In-Service Training Examination (EM/IM) given yearly for all residents
- Paid membership to the American College of Physicians (includes subscription to Annals of Internal Medicine (EM/IM)
The Department of Emergency Medicine provides each resident with a Palm device for use throughout their residency. We are currently using the Palm M515 with a 16 mb expansion card.
ATLS and ATLS Instructor, APLS Provider, ACLS Provider and Instructor courses are provided at no cost to the resident.
