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Call Information
UAMS Psychiatry Residency Call
We have four types of call at UAMS: “Beeper Call”, Night Float, Arkansas State Hospital (ASH) call, and Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) call.
Beeper call
The only type of call which is required isBeeper call. Residents are available by pager and cover two hospitals (UAMS and the adjacent VA hospital) starting at 4:30PM. Once you finish your normal work day, you go home with the call pager.
On average, you will receive 0-1 calls from the UAMS E.R., and on average 1-2 calls from the VA E.R. Sometimes one will receive a call through the switchboard regarding a suicidal clinic patient easily directed to the ER and even more rarely there will be a capacity evaluation on the floor. Upon arrival to the ER, one’s job is to perform a safety assessment, not to explore defense mechanisms and childhood relationships. You can expect to spend about an hour per call and all patients are checked out over the phone with attending physicians who are very supportive and known to drive up to the ER themselves in the middle of the night and troubleshoot if we run into problems.
Call on the weekends is very similar although weekends are split into two shifts: 7AM to 7PM and 7PM to 7AM. This is a new development and is highly regarded as, even if you do have to work a weekend in our program, it’s only a half day.
Interns currently take approximately 23 beeper calls per year total, Second year residents have approximately 8, third year residents work approximately 7, and fourth year residents do not take call.
State Hospital and Children's Hospital call
There are two other types of call within our program: The Arkansas State Hospital and Arkansas Children’s Hospital. We are actually PAID for working these shifts and they are assigned on a voluntary basis. Moreover, even though this is technically “moonlighting”, it does not require a medical license or malpractice insurance. All residents, PGY I-IV are eligible to moonlight at the Arkansas State Hospital and years II-IV are eligible to work at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
Arkansas State Hospital
Weekday shifts are from 5PM-8AM. Residents are responsible for taking calls for general nursing concerns (PRNs, Seclusion, Restraints etc) as well as up to 4 new admissions (the average number of admissions on a weeknight is one to two). There is a very nice call room that has a private bathroom, TV, DVD, VCR, computer with internet connection, and video game system along with a very comfortable recliner. Residents are also permitted to have visitors, spouses, partners, friends while on call. Residents work from 5PM-10PM in-house and then are permitted to leave the hospital and finish their shift from home, available by beeper. Weeknight shifts are paid $300. (Saturdays and Sundays are split into two $300 shifts 8AM-8PM and 8PM-8AM).
Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Residents are paid $50 on weekdays and $100 on weekends to carry the pager and make themselves available at home. Consults are placed primarily from the ER, but also from the floor and are paid $125 per consult. At times, we are asked to follow up on patients that have already been evaluated by the day consult team and for follow up notes we are paid $75. Consults take about an hour and, again, are primarily safety assessments. Each consult is staffed over the phone with an attending physician.
There are many residents in our program who are interested not in the extra money they might make, but in the extra time that they are able to spend with their families given the favorability of our required call schedule.
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