SUBJECT: Moonlighting Policy
PURPOSE:
Provide residents trainees with moonlighting policies in accordance with ACGME and specialty colleges requirements.
POLICY AND PROCEDURES:
Resident- Resident refers to all interns, residents and fellows participating in ACGME-accredited post-graduate training programs.
Post Graduate Training Program- Post graduate training program refers to an ACGME-accredited internship, residency or fellowship training program.
Moonlighting- Moonlighting refers to any and all clinical activities outside of the clinical and educational requirements of the post-graduate training program, in which the resident performs duties as a fully-licensed physician and receives, direct financial remuneration.
Any professional clinical activity that is defined as medical practice by state where it occurs that is performed outside of the scope of training of residency program will considered independent medical practice (i.e “Moonlighting”). This includes dictation of patient records where the patient was not seen in the scope of training.
Moonlighting may only by conducted with explicit written approval of the Program Director and DIO.
Written request by the resident trainee must be approved by the Program Director and DIO and filed in the institution’s resident trainee file.
The resident must demonstrate Full Licensure to practice in the state where the moonlighting will occur, and prove they have secured Professional Liability Insurance for the independent practice.
All approved hours are include in the total allowed work hours under ACGME policy and are monitored by the institution’s graduate medical education committee.
Failure to report and receive approval by the program may be grounds for terminating a resident trainee’s contract.
Under no circumstances may a PGY-1 level trainee moonlight.