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11 CIR Members to Travel the World Doing Relief Work
After six outstanding years of supporting medical volunteer relief work in Haiti, the CIR Policy & Education Initiative has expanded its work to a new program: the Global Medical Volunteer Scholarship program (GMVS). In its inaugural year, the GMVS program received 41 applications from an incredibly competitive group of residents. The program received generous funding…
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New ACGME Guidelines: Returning to 28-Hour On-Call Shifts
For Immediate Release March 10, 2017 Contact: Heather Appel, 917-886-3651 Today the ACGME announced its official decision to roll back the 16-hour limit on consecutive work for first year residents, returning to 28-hour on-call shifts, performed with little or no sleep. The new guidelines also decrease the reporting requirements for resident physicians whose workloads exceed…
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CIR Leaders Join Clergy and Healthcare Workers in DC to ask Congress, “What’s Your Plan?”
On Jan. 31, 100 nurses, doctors, home care and child care workers, community activists, veterans, and faith leaders lined the hallways outside the hearing room for Tom Price’s confirmation vote to confront Senator Hatch (UT) and his colleagues, asking “What’s your plan?” Dr. Dyani Loo, CIR Regional Vice President for New Mexico, and Dr. Donald…
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BMC Residents Say “No” to Non-Educational Work
Should resident physicians spend their training at the patient’s bedside, or at the fax machine? That’s the question that drove CIR members at Boston Medical Center to bargain for an ancillary services committee in their most recent union contract. “There were already some provisions in our CIR contract about house officers not performing certain tasks,…
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Reflections on the Women’s March
On January 21, Dr. Kendra Anderson a resident in the Obstetrics & Gyneocology department at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida, joined an estimated 3 million people in the Women’s March in Washington D.C. She reflects on her experience below: Love. Diversity. Access to quality healthcare. Climate Change. Education. Abortion Rights LGBTQIA rights. Immigration Policy. Plain human…
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I March Because I Care
On January 21, Dr. Jerica Johnson, a resident in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UNMH, joined an estimated 6,000 people in the Women’s March Albuquerque, New Mexico. She reflects on her experience below: We were huddling close on a soggy grass plot in Civic Plaza on January 21, the day of the Women’s March. The…
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Why I Joined the Women’s March: We Cannot Be Silent
On January 21, Dr. Sabrina Taldone was one of 13 resident physicians from Jackson Health System in Miami who joined an estimated 470,000 people in the Women’s March in Washington, DC. She reflects on her experience below: I am so proud of the generations before me who defended women’s rights, and that my generation is joining…
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CIR: We won’t let Trump immigration actions stop us from caring for all patients
CIR/SEIU Healthcare: We won’t let Trump’s executive actions stop us from caring for all patients and standing up for standing up for ourselves and our colleagues In response President Trump’s January 25 announcement of a series of executive actions on immigration, the national resident physicians’ union, the Committee of Interns and Residents, issued the following statement:…
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Highland Wins a Housing Stipend and More
Oakland, CA – Highland Hospital residents voted unanimously in favor of a new union contract on Wednesday, December 21, 2016. This contract introduces a housing stipend, which has recently become a trend in other CIR hospitals in California, amid high rents and cost of living. Four additional CIR contracts contain housing stipends: Children’s Hospital in…
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Howard University Hospital Wins Historic First Contract
Resident physicians at Howard University Hospital have ratified their first CIR contract, which will improve working conditions, pay, and benefits for 266 housestaff over the duration of their two-year contract. The contract is a vote of confidence in the resident physicians who staff the historic hospital, which has been struggling financially in the last few years.…
