Residency vacancies and work environment

• RFS job postings Find available residency and fellowship positions.
• FindAResident The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) also provides you with access to unfilled PGY1-PGY6 positions.
  (This link will take you off the AMA Web site.)
• Register at www.residentswap.org, where you can find current residency vacancies, as posted directly by residency programs as well as view residency spots currently filled by residents who would like to swap location or specialty with another resident. The website will also send alerts to your email or cell phone when new spots open that match your criteria and can also help couples locate residencies in close geographical proximity to each other.

Improving your work environment

• Eliminating Benefit Waiting Periods for Residents The AMA passed HOD Resolution H-295.873 urging ACGME to eliminate waiting periods for resident and fellow physicians and their families to receive health and disability insurance benefits.
• How to file a Duty Hours Violation Complaint with ACGME PDF, 21KB
  
• ACGME duty hour FAQs (PDF, 21KB)
• Unsolicited paging: Your RFS helps to stop physician recruiters from interrupting education and patient care with unsolicited pages during working hours. Read the letters written by Dr. Maves (PDF, 45KB) and the AMNews article (PDF, 35KB) related to this issue. Please contact Anu Gupta at the AMA (312) 464-4277 if you are receiving unsolicited pages by recruiters while you are working.
• The Initiative to Transform Medical Education (ITME) 
• Ethical guidelines for gifts to physicians from industry

FICA: Student Exemption to FICA Tax

• FICA Briefing Document: (PDF, 23KB) IRS continues to lose refund battles.
• Treasury Decision 9167: (PDF, 76KB) Revised IRS regulations.
• Revenue Procedure 2005-11: (PDF, 49KB) Safe harbor standards that IRS says colleges and universities can apply in determining if an employee is eligible for the student FICA exception.