Policy – Attendance at Lectures

The Department provides a variety of educational and training opportunities.  Didactic instruction is considered a core element of training designed to compliment clinical experience.

All residents are required to attend lectures at UCLA or lectures given at affiliated sites.  The faculty is committed to assuring that residents are provided with the opportunity to attend lectures.  At UCLA, Santa Monica and VA Los Angeles, residents shall be released from their clinical duties on a regular basis with sufficient time to attend afternoon lectures.  Failure to attend a lecture after accepting relief for that purpose will be viewed as behavior lacking the essential attributes of an anesthesiologists-in-training.

Those residents who score below the 50^th percentile on the AKT-6 or ITE will receive an Unsatisfactory in Knowledge for that 6-month period on the ABA training report unless they attend 75% of the didactic program offerings, Monday Didactics, Grand Rounds and the 6:30 Case Conference/Key Words Session) during tht period.  Offerings for which the residents have pre-arranged excused absences (granted for vacation time, illness and __ post-call days) will not be included when calculating this requirement.  Residents may be excused from the designation “Unsatisfactory in Knowledge” based upon satisfactory lecture attendance only once.

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Last Updated: September 5, 2007