Loma Linda University Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program offers its residents many benefits. We offer a competitive salary as well as many other unique benefits and opportunities that will help enhance your life and training experience here. We invite you to take some time to explore this page and get to know many of the wonderful features of our program available to our residents.

Stipend

2007-2008 resident stipends (effective 7-1-07)

Paychecks are issued biweekly. Direct Deposit service is available upon request.

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Leave

Paid leave

Professional leave and REEF fund

LLUMC Psychiatry Residency Program offers its residents time outside of vacation days to encourage residents to actively participate in professional activities and conferences. The department also provides the REEF fund to help finance these activities, which can be used to cover registration fees, travel and hotel expenses.

Family/parental leave
Twelve (12) weeks of family/medical leave, without pay but with continued benefits, is available for personal illness or family needs within the guidelines of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

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Insurance Coverage

Health coverage
Major medical coverage, including vision and prescription coverage, and optional dental coverage is available. Monthly premiums are: single: $30 for medical, $5 for dental ($35/month total); one dependent: $125 for medical, $25 for dental ($150/month total); two or more dependents: $195 for medical, $50 for dental (total $245/month).

Professional liability coverage
Loma Linda University Medical Center provides professional and general liability coverage through a self-insured program. This program covers house staff while acting within the course and scope of their employment relationship. All coverage is provided on an occurrence basis. No separate "tail coverage" is required.

Disability insurance
State Disability Insurance (SDI) is available for eligible employees in the event of hospitalization, outpatient surgery, or illness lasting over one week. An SDI claim form must be completed and submitted to the state promptly. LLUMC requires that employees apply for SDI if a covered event occurs. In addition to SDI, residents are covered by a long-term group disability income plan provided by LLUMC. This plan provides disability benefits until age 65.

Life insurance
LLUMC provides a $100,000 group term life insurance policy.

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Services

Drayson Center
This world-class, state-of-the-art recreation complex is available to all house staff at no charge. Drayson Center earned the Facility of Merit Award in the Athletic Business Magazine in December of 1995.

• Aerobics classes
• Weight-training
• Two large heated swimming pools: one for recreation with a large water-slide and the other is an Olympic-sized lap pool.
• Jacuzzi and sauna
• NAUI scuba-certification training
• Three full-sized basketball courts
• Two running tracks (indoor and outdoor)
• Five racquetball courts
• Indoor climbing wall
• Four softball fields
• Six lighted tennis courts
• Two lighted volleyball courts
• A wellness office provides to residents free-of-charge body composition measuring, nutrition profiling, flexibility evaluations, strength testing, fitness profiling, and blood pressure testing

Call rooms
Call rooms are available for residents who have overnight call.

Meals
Two $6.00 meal tickets are issued for each scheduled overnight on-call period. In addition, residents receive a 30 percent discount on food purchased at the LLUMC, Children's Hospital, Faculty Dinning Room, Faculty Medical Office, the Campus Cafeterias, and the Patio Pantry. Cafeteria hours are from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends and 6 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. weekdays. Vending machines are also available.

Laundry
Three white laboratory coats are provided at the beginning of training and are laundered at no expense to the resident. Residents also have access to three sets of scrubs for their use through a vending machine in the main medical center. There is no provision for personal laundry.

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Financial

Retirement Savings Plan
Loma Linda University participates in the Adventist HealthCare Retirement Plan (AHRP) TSA 403(b) Plan, a tax-deferred annuity analogous to a 401(k) which allows participants to defer a portion of their wages into a tax-deferred account.

Flexble Spending Account
LLUMC makes a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) program available to all residents. The FSA allows residents to contribute monthly deductions of pre-tax income into a personal account, which may be used to reimburse them for certain health care and dependent care expenses.

Educational Fund
LLUMC provides for a $1000 educational fund per resident per academic year, which may be used for educational purposes (i.e. USMLE fees, medical licensing fees, books, PDA, etc.) contingent upon approval by the respective training director.

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Other Benefits

Alphanumeric 2-Way Paging
LLUMC supports a 2-way alphanumeric text paging system via the My2Way network. Residents each receive their own Motorola T9 Talkabout messaging pager, assigned campus and off-campus numbers, and assigned alphanumeric pager identifier for ease of paging. This paging system allows bi-directional message transfer and greatly increases work efficiency and ease as now information can be transmitted from one party to another without the hassle of having to call someone back to get the message.

Textbooks
LLUMC Psychiatry Department gives all new residents a free copy of the APA textbook Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry. Residents also receive free copies of many other textbooks throughout their training (i.e. Essentials of Psychopharmacology by Stahl, Synopsis of Psychiatry by Kaplan & Sadock, etc.).

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