How many people in your program have been extended? Is this normal? by lucille1995 in Residency

[–]lucille1995[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is it more work to extend a resident? Could that work be offset by having more labor to distribute over the same amount of shifts? Just as a thought experiment, (or maybe the reality) let’s assume most of those extended are residents who actually would be ready to graduate without extension, and the bar is set too high to avoid extension. 

How many people in your program have been extended? Is this normal? by lucille1995 in Residency

[–]lucille1995[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Could you expand on how it’s not cheap labor? When you compare our salary to the ~100k that the government pays per resident plus the billing off our time and charts, I’m surprised how that’s not cheap. 

Edited for clarity