Salary and Benefits

Residents are paid every two weeks. Residents' salaries are as follows:

The following benefits are provided by Barnes-Jewish Hospital:

• Free parking: Plenty of parking is available in either the parking decks or lots.
• Lab Coats: Four lab coats are provided to the resident at no cost.
• On-Call Meals: Residents always receive a 30 percent discount in the cafeteria provided they have their hospital ID. At the beginning of each month, residents receive two $5 meal tickets per night of in-house call.
• Malpractice Insurance: The program provides minimum limits of $1 million per occurrence/$3,000,000 annual aggregate.
• Major Medical and Dental Insurance: Insurance premiums are made by payroll deduction. Coverage is available for residents, spouses and children by Group Health Plan (P.O.S.)
• Medical Licensure: The hospital will pay for the temporary Missouri license and narcotics permits throughout residency. For residents to moonlight during their laboratory time, the resident must pay for a permanent license.
• Life and Disability Insurance: Is available for up to six times the PGY annual salary. This insurance may be extended to cover family members.
• Employee Assistance Program

The following benefits are provided by the Department of Surgery:

• Leave Policy
• On-Call Rooms: Call rooms and lockers for the surgical residents are all located on the third and fourth floors near the residents' lounge. When on call, residents have their own call rooms. Each room has a lamp, phone, desk, bed, locker and dresser. Call rooms in the SICU and CT ICU are either connected to, or immediately adjacent to, the units.
• Free professional sports tickets: The Department of Surgery purchases season tickets to home games of the Rams (football), Cardinals (baseball) and Blues (ice hockey) teams. Game tickets are provided to residents free of charge, either through a ticket lottery or on a first come/first serve basis, depending on how many tickets are available for the season.
• Residents' Lounge: The residents’ lounge provides the resident with a place to relax between surgical cases. The lounge has been recently renovated and is equipped with a microwave oven, full-size refrigerator, new 32-inch television equipped with cable and DVD player, and dining table and chairs as well as two very comfortable leather couches. It is located on the fourth floor above the operating rooms.
• Residents' Library and House Staff Office: The residents’ house staff office is conveniently located on the first floor at the south campus. This room houses two computers, a scanner, printer, refrigerator, microwave, facsimile, copy machine and library of most major surgical textbooks. There is also a residents’ office located on the 9th floor of Wohl Hospital just next door to the Surgical Education Office. This room offers access to four additional computers and a printer along with a conference area for resident use. Here, residents have the ability to view laparoscopic procedures by accessing SAGES Top 14 Procedures and Grand Rounds DVDs through the intranet. On certain days of the week, they can also utilize the laparoscopic simulators located just next door in the Surgical Education Office. Both the House Staff Office and the 9th Floor Residents’ Office are accessible 24 hours per day.
• Free copies at the Becker Medical Library: The Department provides copy cards to residents.