Welcome

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT

It is a pleasure to welcome all incoming residents to the Long Island College Hospital. Our institution has a long history of solid commitment to graduate medical education and was actually the first hospital in the United States to create its own medical school. The institution is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and by the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

Long Island College Hospital is committed to providing all necessary support for your educational programs including a large patient base, a well-funded library, up-to-date on-call rooms with Internet access, and a network of affiliated hospitals that will continue to contribute to your experiences. We are also, working with other members of Continuum Health Partners to implement a Core Curriculum of topics that will enhance your education in your chosen field. This curriculum will include training in medical legal issues, socioeconomic matters, ethics, cultural issues in medical practice and physician-patient communications.

We are also pleased to support a support House Staff Association that will be an important mechanism for your involvement in hospital activities. This organization will cork closely with hospital administration and individual departments on numerous projects that will not only enhance your working environment and educational programs but will contribute to patient care.

It is very important for each house officer to be actively involved in institutional activities. You will have the opportunity to elect your representatives to numerous committees and councils that affect your representatives to following: Medical Executive Committee, Graduate Medical Education Committee, GMEC Resident Subcommittee, Quality Assurance Committee, Utilization Committee, Medical Records Committee, Pharmacy Committee and individual departmental committees. The hospital will also make every effort to keep you informed of all institutional policies, procedures, and practices, as well as any changes that come about.

Your feedback on your educational programs is critical. In addition to the evaluation of your own departmental program and faculty in a confidential and anonymous manner at least once a year, you will be asked to provide feedback in other ways. For example, the GME Committee has an active Internal Review Program that evaluates all departments and services on a regular basis. Each review involves interviews with residents and fellows in the department under review and each internal review committee has at least one resident member from outside the department.

It is very important for you to know that you can readily raise issues involving any aspect of your experience at Long Island College Hospital without fear of intimidation or retaliation. Among the individuals and organizations to whom you can raise issues are the following: Graduate Medical Education Committee, GMEC Resident Subcommittee, House Staff Association, Office of Academic Affairs, and senior administrative officials, in addition to your departmental chair, program director and faculty members.

In summary, Long Island College Hospital is pleased to welcome you and to work with you as you pursue your graduate medical education program. We hope that you will refer to this House Staff Manual regularly and will find it helpful. We encourage you to provide recommendations on any additional material that would enhance your orientation to the hospital.

Sincerely,

Frank E. Lucente, MD
Chief of Academic Affairs