University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine

Rotation schedules

Call

• Each resident takes primary AP/CP call for a week at a time, typically nine weeks per year
• Residents rotate major holidays, usually amounting to one major holiday per year
• Staff pathologist is on call with resident at all times
• C/P call consists mainly of occasional clinical chemistry and blood banking phone calls
• Resident is responsible for occasional bone marrow biopsies and aspirates on weekend
• Residents take beeper call from home; there are no call rooms

Frozen sections

• Staff pathologist is responsible for being physically present for all frozen sections
• On-call resident assists with frozen sections
• When possible, resident will perform frozen section and inform requesting physician of diagnosis

Autopsies

• Resident on call is not responsible for forensic autopsies, unless arrangements have been made with forensic pathologist and/or assistant coroners for Minnehaha County
• Resident on call is responsible for all weekend autopsies done at Royal C. Johnson Memorial VA Medical Center and Sanford USD Medical Center (excluding forensic), unless so directed by forensic pathologist

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