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title: Stroke weekend coverage (consult MD)
description: "## About Prepared by: Ingrid Ma Version: 1 (2021-Apr-13) ### Description There is currently a shortage of manpower for the stroke weekend coverage. This document will outline the current solutions, which utilizes a mix of fellows, additional consult staff, and…"
url: "https://vghneuro.ca/docs/stroke-weekend-coverage-consult-md/"
updated: "2021-04-13"
category: Operations
tags:
  - procedures
---

# Stroke weekend coverage (consult MD)

## About

Prepared by: Ingrid Ma

Version: 1 (2021-Apr-13)

### Description

There is currently a shortage of manpower for the stroke weekend coverage. This document will outline the current solutions, which utilizes a mix of fellows, additional consult staff, and a potential clinical associate hire for the future.

### Scheduling

Right now, the consult staff of each week is scheduled to help with the weekend coverage from 8am- 12pm every Saturday and Sunday, with a few exceptions:

- If a fellow is scheduled for ward that week, they will handle the weekend coverage instead. This will happen once every month.
- If an additional clinical associate is hired, they may take over some of the weekend coverage. A clinical associate has yet to be hired, so the consult staff can expect to be responsible for additional weekend coverage for three out of the four weeks every month

### Workload and expectations for weekend coverage staff

Additional weekend coverage will be from 8am-12pm every Saturday and Sunday. The staff on call is expected to have their pager on at 8am, and respond to:

- All outside calls
- Consults calls from emergency
- Hot strokes

Note that if there are any overnight consult cases that need to be “cleaned up,” the half-day staff should not be required to attend to these. They will be responsible for new work that began after 8am only.

### Final

Details are subjected to change depending on future developments (eg. if a clinical associate is hired

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