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Call Schedule

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Urology Procedure

Our RUSH Urology residents make their own call schedule, which continues to improve with the addition of 3 residents per year. We are fortunate to offer home call with a medicine nocturnist in house at RUMC that covers our primary patients from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. daily. Thus “primary call” indicates urology consults at RUSH University Medical Center, RUSH Oak Park Hospital, and primaries/consults at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. 
 
In general:

  • Intern: No primary GU call; later in the academic year, we have interns to take “buddy call” once/week with senior GU residents to get used to call logistics. On general surgery rotations, interns take gen surg call which typically is 1-2 weekend shifts (24-28 hour)/month.
  • PGY-2: Weekday: 1 primary call/week. Weekend: primary call every 3rd weekend. 
  • PGY-3: Weekday: 1 primary call every 5-6 weeks, 0-2 backup call/week. Weekend: 1 backup call every 4-5th weekend.
  • PGY-4: Weekday: 1 primary call every 5-6 weeks, 0-1 backup call/week. Weekend: 1 backup call every 4-5th weekend.
  • PGY-5: No primary call.