MOONLIGHTING
Residency and fellowship programs require the full time efforts of participating housestaff and allow little, if any, time for outside employment (moonlighting). The residency or fellowship Program Director must not require their housestaff to moonlight and may prohibit moonlighting for all housestaff in his/her program, or may allow it on an individual basis after due consideration of the circumstances.
Only licensed housestaff may be considered for moonlighting.
The housestaff member who wishes to moonlight must provide the Program Director with a written request containing the following items: place, statement of duties and number of hours per month of all moonlighting jobs. The approval, signed by the Program Director, is made part of the resident's file.
It is the housestaff member's responsibility to notify his Program Director of any changes in moonlighting (place, hours, duties) and to obtain approval for such changes.
The Program Director may prohibit or rescind approval of any moonlighting job if he/she believes that the housestaff member's performance in the residency or fellowship suffers, or for any other cause he/she deems appropriate. Professional liability insurance is provided as a benefit to each housestaff member only for the performance of his/her duties in the training program and does not cover moonlighting.
The housestaff member is responsible for the cost of professional liability insurance and all other costs related to moonlighting and as a condition of moonlighting approval, must furnish his or her Program Director with written evidence of such insurance coverage for the moonlighting.
This policy was approved by the MCWAH Graduate Medical Education Council on April 21, 2003.