Call Designation by Program

There are four types of call in the collective agreement:

1. In-House Call
2. ICU/CCU Call
3. Home Heavy Call
4. Home Light Call

Whether a program's call is home light or home heavy depends on the amount of time spent in the hospital during the on-call period on average by all residents in the program. The following calculation is used to determine home-heavy call:

Home Heavy Call is defined as:

A home call where during the period of 5:00 pm and 8:00 am, the resident has to spend more than 4 hours after 5:00 pm and/or 2 hours after midnight out of home (i.e., in the hospital) more than 50% of the time and over a given call period.

A home call during a weekday or stat holiday, where the resident has to spend 12 hours or more during a 24-hour period in the hospital more than 50% of the time over a given call period.

Please note that every hour in the hospital after midnight will count as 2 hours for the calculation.

Home Light Call is considered any home call that does not meet the above definition.