Intern, Resident and Fellow Benefits
Bereavement Leave
Boston Sports Club Benefit
Committee of Intern and Residents (CIR) Membership Dues (or Agency Fee)
Days Off
Disability Insurance
Duty Hours
Emergency Room Shifts
Extra On-call
Family and Medical Leave
Lab Coats
Lease Guarantee Program
Library Fund
Limit on Consecutive Hours Worked
Limited Licensing Fee
Maternity Leave
Maximum Work Week
Meal Allowances
On-Call Schedule
Orientation Pay
Parental Leave
Parents in a Pinch Childcare Benefit
Parking
Patient Care Fund
Personal Days
Professional Education Allowance
Ride Share Program - Lyft
Salary
Sick Leave
Time Off Between Shifts
Vacation
Orientation Pay
All incoming residents are paid for orientation or work performed prior to July 1 of their first year.
Salary
| October 1, 2017 | October 1, 2018 | ||
| PGY 1 | $60,163.34 | $61,366.60 | |
| PGY 2 | $62,438.82 | $63,687.59 | |
| PGY 3 | $65,374.32 | $66,681.81 | |
| PGY 4 | $68,453.20 | $69,822.27 | |
| PGY 5 | $72,007.08 | $73,447.22 | |
| PGY 6 | $76,176.09 | $77,699.61 | |
| PGY 7 | $78,831.36 | $80,407.98 | |
| PGY 8 | $81,669.49 | $83,302.88 |
Extra On-call
Extra on-call is defined as work performed over and above a House Officer's assigned schedule. If a House Officer is required or volunteers (and is accepted) to work an extra on-call shift due to a fellow House Officer’s (1) illness, (2) disability, (3) death, (4) approved leaves of absence, (5) temporary reassignment by the department due to the inability to carry out clinical duties (6) emergency absence, (7) removal from payroll, (8) jury duty, (9) departmental scheduling error, (10) a delay in start date due to visa or licensure issues, (11) bereavement leave, (12) resignation or termination, then the House Officer will be compensated according to the following schedule:
- Tier 1 $100/call for 4 or more hours
- Tier 2 $250/call for 8 or more hours
- Tier 3 $400/call for 16 or more hours
Committee of Intern and Residents (CIR) Membership Dues (or Agency Fee)
House Officers and fellows are represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR) for the purpose of negotiating their salaries, hours, and work conditions with the Hospital, and enforcing the negotiated contract. Members of CIR pay dues of 1.5% of their net gross salary, deducted weekly. House officers and fellows who choose not to be members are required by the Hospital's contract with the union to contribute an "agency fee" (also deducted weekly), which is calculated based on the cost of negotiating and enforcing their contract. These dues/fees are tax deductible.
Disability Insurance
The Hospital purchases, at its own expense, disability coverage for House Officers which is portable and is provided by the Voluntary Hospitals House Staff Benefits Plan of the Committee of Interns and Residents.
Vacation
The Hospital provides four (4) weeks' vacation leave with pay except in the Departments of Surgery, Urology, Thoracic Surgery, Oral Surgery, Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT), Ophthalmology, Dermatology, and Anesthesia where the respective Chief of Service, with the approval of the Office of Graduate Medical Education, may require that the fourth week of vacation leave be in the form of one (1) week of additional compensation in lieu of time off.
Vacation time is accrued at the rate of 1 2/3 days for every month of service. If a House Officer uses vacation time prior to accruing it, their vacation bank may reflect a negative balance until such time as their vacation time is accrued.
Sick Leave
Sick leave accrues at the rate of one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days for each month of actual service, not to exceed fifteen (15) working days in any calendar year. New employees are credited in advance with seven and one-half (7 1/2) sick leave days as of July of their first year, in advance of such year having been worked. Sick leave not used in the year in which it accrues, together with any accumulated sick leave standing to the employee's credit and not used in the current year, may be accumulated for use in the subsequent year. Sick leave not used prior to the termination of an employee's service shall lapse, and the employee shall not be entitled to any compensation in lieu thereof.
Personal Days
A House Officer may take up to two (2) personal days in any one academic year (July 1 – June 30) to be paid out of his/her accrued sick leave. Any use of personal days is subject to the approval of the House Officer's department. Departments may grant personal days in ½ day increments at the department's discretion.
Maternity Leave
House Officers are entitled to up to twelve (12) weeks of unpaid family leave for the birth or care of a child, for the adoption of a child under age eighteen or foster care placement of a child under age eighteen. Unused sick and vacation time can be used for this twelve (12) week leave.
Parental Leave
House Officers are entitled to two (2) weeks parental leave in order to attend to the birth, adoption, or care of a new child in the employee's immediate household. Unused sick and vacation time may be used for this leave.
Family and Medical Leave
Eligible persons may be entitled to up to twelve (12) weeks of unpaid medical leave for serious illness or serious illness of said person's spouse, parent or child pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. All applications for FMLA must comply with the law and the Hospital's policies and procedures governing such leave.
Bereavement Leave
In the event of death of a House Officer's mother, father, spouse, significant other, parents of spouse or significant other, brother, sister, child, grandparent, grandchild, or other members of the House Officer's immediate household (for a period of six (6) months or more), the House Officer is entitled to receive up to three (3) working days leave without loss of pay for the purpose of attending funeral services or arranging for burial, provided that the House Officer is in active service at the time of such death. Leave without loss of pay under this section shall not be deducted from sick leave or vacation leave.
All House Officers are permitted one (1) day's leave without pay in order to attend the funeral of a relative not included above. A House Officer may choose to use accumulated sick leave for this purpose. If a House Officer requires additional leave for bereavement purposes due to the death of someone specified above, authorized leave for such purposes shall be deducted from sick leave allowance.
Professional Education Allowance
As of July 1, 2017, the amount will be increased to nine hundred-fifty dollars ($950); one thousand dollars ($1,000) effective July 1, 2018; and one thousand-fifty dollars ($1,050) effective July 1, 2019.
Lab Coats
The Hospital will provide each House Officer with three (3) white coats in their first year of residency, and two (2) for each successive year of their residency.
Lease Guarantee Program
The Hospital agrees to act as the Guarantor in the event a House Officer's landlord requires advance payment of up to two20 months of rent (security deposit and/or last month's payment), as a condition for entering into a lease (up to a maximum of $6,500). The Hospital shall guarantee payment to the landlord under specified terms, agreed upon by the Hospital and the CIR-SEIU. In return, the House Officer agrees to reimburse for any payment the Hospital is required to make under the Guarantee.
Limited Licensing Fee
The Hospital pays for the limited license for all House Officers.
Parking
House Officers participating in the monthly parking program shall pay $84.46 per month. Payroll deduction on a pre-tax basis is available.
Occasional parking is available. House Officers may purchase a packet of twelve (12) stickers. House Officers shall pay 50% of the rate set for these packets by the Office of Parking and Transportation Services, but in no event shall the cost of such packet be less than monthly parking cost to the House Officers. House Officers shall be limited to the purchase of four (4) subsidized parking packets per year.
House Officers who elect not to participate in the BMC parking program may be eligible for an MBTA pass subsidy offered by the Office of Parking and Transportation Services (limit of 1 pass per person per month).
Duty Hours
House Officers must accurately record all duty hours worked weekly unless excused by the Program Director. No House Officer will be disciplined or retaliated against for accurately recording duty hours regardless of whether such hours comply with ACGME regulations.
On-Call Schedule
(a) In-House call is defined as those duty hours beyond the normal workday when residents are required to be immediately available. House Officers shall not be scheduled to be on-call more often than every third night averaged over a four (4) week period or as required.
(b) At-home call is defined as call taken from outside the Hospital. It can be scheduled more frequently than every third night, but must not be so frequent as to preclude rest and reasonable personal time for each House Officer. When House Officers are called to the Hospital from home, the hours spent in the Hospital shall count toward the eighty (80) hour limit
Residents are permitted to return to the hospital while on Call from Home (at-home call) to care for new or established patients. Each episode of this type of care, while it must be included in the 80-hour weekly maximum, will not initiate a new "off-duty period." When House Officers are called to the Hospital from home, the hours spent in the Hospital count toward the 80-hour limit.
Maximum Work Week
No House Officer shall be scheduled to work more than eighty (80) hours averaged over a four (4) week period.
Limit on Consecutive Hours Worked
(a) Duty periods of First Year residents (as defined by each Residency Review Committee) must not exceed 16 hours in duration.
(b) Continuous on-site duty, including in-house call, for Intermediate and Final Year residents (as defined by each Residency Review Committee), must not exceed twenty-four (24) consecutive hours of continuous duty in the hospital. Residents may be allowed to remain on site for up to four (4) additional hours to effectively transition care of a single patient based on the Program" Duty Hours Policy. No new patients, as defined in Specialty and Subspecialty Program Requirements, may be accepted after twenty-four (24) hours of continuous duty.
Time Off Between Shifts
House Officers should have a minimum of ten (10) hours between all periods of work and must have eight (8).
Days Off
House Officers shall be allowed at least one twenty-four (24) hour period in seven (7) days away from the Hospital, averaged over a four (4) week period unless specified otherwise by the Residency Review Committee.
Emergency Room Shifts
House Officers shall work no more than 12 consecutive hours in the Adult or Pediatric Emergency Rooms.
Meal Allowances
House Officers will be provided with a meal allowance of $700 per academic year programmed onto the House Officers' identification badges. No amount may be carried over from one academic year to another. House Officers must be actively employed by BMC to utilize the meal allowance. House Officers are eligible for the Hospital's employee discount program. The Hospital shall provide access to nutritious food for House Officers who cannot leave their patient care duties to access food prior to the closing of the cafeterias.
Parents in a Pinch Childcare Benefit
The Hospital shall pay the retainer fee for House Officers to utilize backup childcare providers via care.com.
Boston Sports Club Benefit
All CIR members are eligible to receive discounted membership to the Boston Sports Clubs. Members will receive a 40% reduction in both monthly and joining fees.
Library Fund
The Hospital shall dedicate $10,000 annually to a fund jointly administered by CIR and the Office of Medical Affairs for the purchase of shared educational resources for House Officers.
Patient Care Fund
The Hospital shall dedicate $35,000 annually to a fund for the purpose of providing for the purchase of equipment, supplies, educational materials and other items deemed to be of benefit to patients at Boston Medical Center and its affiliated health centers. The Fund shall be administered by a representative group of House Officers, all members of the Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU.
Ride Share Program - Lyft
BMC has created a partnership with Lyft, the ride sharing company. Through the Safe Ride Program, House Officers will be given a one-time use credit to be used towards a ride home with Lyft.
- $15 per ride for a House Officer working a 24 hour or more shift
- $10 per ride for a House Officer whose shift concludes during late night hours