Residents receive the following benefits:
• Twenty working days paid vacation
• Professional leave with pay for approved meetings
• Sick leave--six months accrual after two years of employment
• Comprehensive group health coverage at reduced rates
• Low-rate automatic eligibility disability coverage available
• 4 lab coats provided at the beginning of residency
• Laundering of lab coats provided
• $100 house officer educational appropriation for departments
• Travel reimbursement for residents investigating NE practice locations
• Reimbursement for travel to and from required training sites more than 25 miles from the Medical Center
• Advanced Trauma Life Support course fees paid by UNMC Department of Orthopaedics
• Evening and breakfast meal allowance while on call at the Nebraska Medical Center

House officer annual salaries for 2009-2010:
HO I - $48,882
HO II - $50,692
HO III - $52,758
HO IV - $54,639
HO V - $56,552

Call schedule:
A resident's call schedule is highly variable, but it is not more than every third night in the hospital under normal circumstances. Orthopaedic residents typically spend their first three years on call in the hospital about every fourth night. Fourth and fifth year residents take home call only.