The ability to get to and from regularly scheduled shifts is an expected and essential part of employment, even when these shifts are overnight shifts. However, in medicine unexpected circumstances arise that require physician presence beyond the expected shift or that require intense commitment. Under such circumstances, a resident or fellow may be too fatigued to safely commute. The GME office will offer reimbursement for round trip transportation costs to help ensure that UTHealth Residents and Fellows, get home safely after work. This reimbursement is available to any Resident (or Fellow) that elects to use a transportation service to get home instead of driving their vehicle while fatigued.

The trainee must choose an app based service (Uber, Lyft, Mytaxi, etc.) to show the trip details and submit the receipts to program administration within 10 business days according to the parameters listed below:

• Provide a screenshot or printout from the app.
• Receipt must show the trip address from a valid training site to the trainee’s verifiable home address (listed in New Innovations).
• Return trip must show the home address to a valid training site.
• Receipts must be submitted to program administration within 10 business days.

Upon submission of the receipts to program administration:

• The program administrator will vet the receipts and information provided.
• The program administrator will send the vetted receipts with the completed and signed form to the GME office for voucher processing.

The program administrator must submit this reimbursement form to the GME office within 20 business days of the receipts’ date.

If there are any questions about this survey, email ms.gme@uth.tmc.edu