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This is a complicated issue, but I will briefly try to explain. Residents in our program find our call so deplorable that we sometimes "sell" it. This means that we pay other residents to take call that is assigned to us. We have more than sufficient call for "training" and "educational" purposes. This has been going on for years. There is no written (or spoken, until now) rule against it.
Anyway, a resident sent out an email titled "$ for call." Our PD happened to be sitting at a residents' computer doing something or other during supervision time when the notification box for this email popped up. She read it and said "you guys really shouldn't be selling call. I'm going to have to investiage this." Then she started confronting people who she suspected were doing the call-selling.
First of all, is there a known ACGME policy about selling call? Second, is it unprofessional for a PD to act on information she got by reading an email that was not addressed to her? She is making call off deals that were already in place (ie. return money and take call.) Is there anything that can be done?
Anyway, a resident sent out an email titled "$ for call." Our PD happened to be sitting at a residents' computer doing something or other during supervision time when the notification box for this email popped up. She read it and said "you guys really shouldn't be selling call. I'm going to have to investiage this." Then she started confronting people who she suspected were doing the call-selling.
First of all, is there a known ACGME policy about selling call? Second, is it unprofessional for a PD to act on information she got by reading an email that was not addressed to her? She is making call off deals that were already in place (ie. return money and take call.) Is there anything that can be done?