Neurosurgery residency training is a rigorous full-time educational experience. It is important that residents have time for adequate rest and personal pursuits. The ACGME has instituted work hour regulations, which require residents to work no more than 80 hours per week when averaged over a four week period. They further require that hours spent moonlighting be counted towards the 80 hours. Residents should not be diverted from their primary responsibilities of patient care and learning by engaging in extramural professional activities. Because the Neurosurgery Training Program is time intensive and it is difficult to meet all the requirements in only 80 hours per week, clinical moonlighting is expressly forbidden and will result in dismissal from the program.
Military service or approved University of Utah academic service is not considered moonlighting.