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The Office of Graduate Medical Education must be notified of any sick leave extending beyond two weeks. Weekends are included in all leave days. Each type of leave is monitored and leave beyond permitted days will be without pay. Makeup of training time after extended leave is at the discretion of the Department Head and/or Program Director and governed by applicable law. The program will give timely notice of the effect of leave(s) on the ability of the House Officer to satisfy requirements for program completion.
ACGME Extended Medical, Parental, Caregiver Leave:
Process: Employee should be notified to reach out to HRMFMLA@lsuhsc.edu to begin the FMLA process (regardless of years of service). Coordinators should also communicate to the HRM distribution list when they are notified of extended leave being taken. Determining eligibility for FMLA will also allow the determination for eligibility of ACGME leave. An employees FMLA and/or ACGME entitlement may run concurrently to one another. Like FMLA, ACGME can be designated once the eligibility is determined regardless of the House Officers request.
Informational Facts:
- Human Resource Management determines eligibility, the program coordinators track the leave
- ACGME leave is for an extended medical, parental or caregiver approved leave
- Extended medical is considered three (3) days or more for the same reason
- ACGME leave requirement allows a House Officer up to six (6) weeks of approved paid leave due to extended medical, parental or caregiver leave
- A House Officer may be eligible for one (1) additional week of personal leave
- House Officers receive fourteen (14) days (including weekends) of paid sick leave per year
- Sick leave may be used for a House Officer of immediate family member defined as a spouse, parent, or child of the House Officer
- House Officers (PGYI) receive twenty-one (21) days (including weekends) of non-cumulative vacation leave per year. House Officers (PGYII) receive twenty-eight (28) days (including weekends) of non-cumulative vacation leave per year
- A House Officer is eligible for ACGME one (1) time per program
- ACGME can be designated by Human Resource Management and does not require a House Officer to request
- ACGME can be taken in a lump sum of time, segment of time or intermittently; the accumulation is a total of six (6) weeks