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NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL

This information is meant to help guide you. If you have any questions, please make sure to ask your residents and site directors.

CLINICS

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INFORMATION/TIPS

  • Email the preceptor and their admin to let them know you will be joining them. If you have teaching that morning, let them know you will come later.  

    • You will receive an email with your schedule, preceptor and preceptor’s clinic

  • Bring your stethoscope for OB and Gyne clinics. A measuring tape for OB clinics would also be useful if you have one

  • Help clean the room in between patients

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DETAILS

  • Storage: usually in the preceptor’s clinical office

  • Lunch: usually at your desk, pack food with you from home 

  • Dress code: Business casual

  • Start time: variable, confirm with the preceptor through email

  • Notes: on Accuro or on paper, depends on the clinic and preceptor 

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LOCATIONS

  • Preceptor clinics were usually within 1-2 subway stops from NYGH

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GYNE

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INFORMATION/TIPS

  • Rounding: 

    • Text the chief resident the night before 

    • You may be asked to round or be told to meet at 7:45 by the OR

    • If there is a seminar, you don’t round and you can instead show up in the OR after teaching is over

  • Clinic

    • Chief clinics are on Friday afternoons. Text the chief resident to see what time they want you to arrive at

    • Patient charts and the clinic list for the day can be found at the front desk with the secretaries

    • Typically you would see a patient on your own, take a full history and review with either the chief resident or the fellow. Either the fellow or the resident will join you to do a physical together. Never do a pelvic exam on your own. 

    • There is a room in the clinic where you can dictate after. Make sure to download PowerMicMobile on your phone

  • OR:

    • Let the chief resident know you will join later if there is a seminar in the morning

    • Try to introduce yourself to the patient before. If you could not do that for the first case, then try to do so for the next cases. 

    • Never examine a patient under anesthesia if you have not introduced yourself to them.

    • Write your name, level of training (CC3), and glove size on the whiteboard in the OR. Grab your gloves and hand them over sterilely to the scrub nurse 


DETAILS

  • Storage: You will be given a locker on the 6th floor 

  • Lunch: Fridge and microwave in 6th floor call room, food court options are very limited and often have a long line up so bring food from home. You will likely not be given time off to go have lunch during OR days so make sure to have breakfast in the morning and grab quick snacks in between cases.  

  • Dress code: scrubs for OR and chief resident clinic 

  • Start time: Set by the chief resident. Text them

  • OR start time: 7:45 am but you will usually have seminar teaching 7-8 and will arrive in the OR after the case has started 

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LOCATIONS

  • OR: NYGH 2nd floor 

  • Chief clinic: Baruch/Weisz Clinic on the main floor 

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EPAC/BPP

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INFORMATION/TIPS

  • You will be told on your schedule when to arrive at the Biophysical Profile Clinic (BPP) or Early Pregnancy Clinic (EPAC)

  • The EPAC clinic will have a lot of amniocenteses for pregnancies that screened positive for genetic abnormalities. The BPP clinic will mainly have ultrasounds

  • Study the BPP PDF that will be emailed to you. Material from that will show up in both the EPAC and BPP clinic

  • On Friday afternoons, there are D&Cs and D&Es in the OR which you can attend

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DETAILS

  • Storage:

    • Leave backpack in your locker. 

    • There will be some “down time” so you can bring foldable study materials you can keep in your pocket 

  • Lunch: leave in lunch bag on 6thfloor

  • Dress code: Scrubs for BPP clinic, business casual for EPAC clinic 

  • Start time: 9 am

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LOCATIONS

  • BPP Clinic: 2nd floor, right across from L&D

  • EPAC Clinic: 3rd floor in the genetics area

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L&D

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INFORMATION/TIPS

  • Write your name, level of training (CC3), and phone number on the whiteboard at the nursing station and on the sign-up sheet in triage 

  • Every shift, introduce yourself to the OB on call, the triage charge nurse, the birthing unit charge nurse and the resident on call. 

  • Outside of the C-section ORs, you’ll see the list of scheduled C-sections for the day.

  • Always introduce yourself to the patient before you attend their delivery; check in with the preceptor if you did not get a chance to do so before the patient started pushing 

  • Always bring back-up socks! (you may be splashed with bodily fluids). Wear waterproof shoes or Crocs without holes

  • Write your name, level of training (CC3), and glove size on the whiteboard in the OR. Grab your gloves and hand them over sterilely to the scrub nurse

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DETAILS

  • Storage: Locker on the 6th floor

  • Lunch: there is a fridge in the nurses’ lounge on L&D or you can use the 6th floor call room 

  • Dress code: scrubs 

  • Start time: 7:00 am but clerks usually arrive at 8:00 because of morning seminars

  • Notes: set up your PowerChart and create these autotexts here. If you invest time on setting this up early, it will save you a lot of time later.

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LOCATIONS

  • NYGH 2nd floor


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CALL

SEE ABOVE NOTES FOR L&D. ADDITIONAL INFO BELOW:

  • Call is always on L&D

  • Exchange phone numbers with the resident at the beginning of the call shift. 

  • Length: 12 hour shift

  • Start time: 7:00 pm to 7:00 am

  • Around 5 or 5:30 am, you round with the resident on all of the patients who delivered 

  • Attendance at seminar is mandatory whether you are pre-call or post-call. 

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