SUBJECT: Performance Expectations, Probation and Termination
Clinical skills and other criteria, listed in the “Assessment of Resident by Supervisor” must be rated on the average as competent. Unsatisfactory category ratings must be remediated before the next evaluation. Failure to remediate will result in probation. Interaction between the resident and colleagues, staff, faculty, and patients must be collaborative and professional, to ensure excellence in patient care. Attendance is mandatory in all assigned areas of clinical work at least from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or longer, as determined by the clinical service. Attendance at seminars and supervisory sessions is mandatory unless excused by the faculty member in charge, or the Chief of the Division. Cooperative participation in seminars and in supervision is required and expected. Reading and preparation for patient care, didactic programs, and supervision is required. Examinations, including written exams such as the PRITE and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry exam and oral exams, must be performed at a level of competence that reflects the level of training. A remediation plan will be developed for areas of weakness. Timely and appropriate record-keeping is required. Initial evaluations must be dictated or written within 24 hours of seeing the patient. If the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry faculty, as a group, decide that any of the above eight requirements are not fulfilled, the resident shall be warned of the need to remediate and given two weeks to do so. At the end of two weeks, if remediation has not occurred, the resident will be placed on probation. A resident on probation will be given a fair period of time to remediate (but not more than two months). If remediation has not occurred, a recommendation will be made to the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry to terminate the residency. The procedure for termination and appeal, as described by the Shands Hospital Office of Graduate Medical Education above, applies.
