Residents receive the following benefits:
- Twenty working days paid vacation
- Professional leave with pay for approved meetings
- Sick leave - six months accrual after two years of employment
- Comprehensive group health coverage at reduced rates
- Low-rate automatic eligibility disability coverage available
- 4 lab coats provided at the beginning of residency
- Laundering of lab coats provided
- $300 house officer educational appropriation for departments
- Travel reimbursement for residents investigating NE practice locations
- Reimbursement for travel to and from training site more than 75 miles from Medical Center
- Advanced Trauma Life Support course fees paid by UNMC Department of Orthopaedics
- Educational courses sponsored by UNMC Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program
House officer annual salaries for 2020-2021:
HO I $58,690
HO II $60,863
HO III $63,343
HO IV $65,601
HO V $67,898
Call schedule:
A resident's call schedule is highly variable, but it is not more than every third night under normal circumstances. All call is home call and averages every fourth day for the first three years. Fourth and fifth year residents take home back up call and average seven per month.