Daily News | Penn Medicine residents and fellows want a union, citing grueling workloads and 80-hour workweeks
Resident physicians and fellows at University of Pennsylvania Health System have launched a unionizing effort, joining thousands of training doctors across the country who have organized in pursuit of better working conditions since the onset of COVID-19.
Organizing committee members were driven in part by grueling conditions they faced during the pandemic, they said. They were expected to pick up extra shifts without any additional pay because they are salaried. Even outside periods of peak COVID-19 spread, an 80-hour workweek isn’t uncommon in many departments, organizing committee members said.“Residency is always hard.
Resident and fellow salaries last year started at about $65,000 for doctors in their first year post-medical school, up to about $89,000 for doctors in their ninth year of postgraduate work. In July, the pay scale will be adjusted soIf a first-year resident works a 40-hour week, that would come out to roughly $33 per hour. But in an 80-hour week, it’s more like $16.
Other areas of concern among organizing members include heath-care benefits, parental leave and child-care support. Residents in each department have certain other items they would like to negotiate, committee members said, but the unifying theme is that they want to break down silos between specialties and win a seat at the table to help decide how the health system operates. This includes decisions on how doctors care for patients.
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