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Re: Maternity Leave in Residency From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@gmail.com) Thu Feb 26 20:51:50 2009 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dean Huffman: "Re: Rhogam" Previous message: Dr. Ainsworth: "Re: Maternity Leave in Residency" In my day: we created a personal leave policy. The instigating factor was that there were 4 of us pregnant. We carefully timed it so no two would be off at the same time. The residency director researched allowed time off and so forth. It was a balanced policy. Then 2 of the men in the residency used the personal/medical leave policy before any of the women needed it. Maybe it was three. One's mom was dying of breast cancer, one creamed his knee in a volleyball game and one lacerated his finger with a vial of chemotherapy agent. They were glad we made the program make the policy. Ultimately there were 6 babies in 6 months 2 were to male docs. And the 4 to the women docs included one that was born 3 weeks after the woman finished residency. But it got lots of comments from the other services about the ObGyn service not being able to practice birth control. When in fact it was carefully planned to be well spaced. (mid January - Mid March - Late June and 3 weeks into July). That was 1983. My delivery was June 30. I took 6 weeks off: saved up vacation and only had 2 weeks that wasn't out of vacation. Worked my butt off before I had her (worked right up to that day) and worked equally hard when I got back. Joanne At Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Dr. Ainsworth wrote: > >I would expect each residency program to have its own policies. Wasn't an >issue in our day because there weren't any. > -- Joanne Bulley, MD solo gyn Keene, NH Next message: Dean Huffman: "Re: Rhogam" Previous message: Dr. Ainsworth: "Re: Maternity Leave in Residency"

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