Quincy Family Practice Program
Residents Manual
Prescription Writing Policy
The Affiliated Hospitals of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine have developed a program to assign residents a temporary DEA number. The assigned DEA number is the hospital’s DEA number followed by the resident’s hospital dictating number. This number can be used only to prescribe schedule II, III, IV, and V controlled substances for hospitalized patients using the hospital pharmacy and only as long as the resident is employed by one of our affiliated hospitals. The hospital temporary DEA number may not be used while moonlighting and should not be used for prescriptions to be filled in private pharmacies
Residents MAY NOT use this number to prescribe schedule II narcotics for non-hospitalized patients. Schedule II narcotic prescriptions may be written only by a resident or attending physician with a permanent license and personal DEA number.
A resident holding a permanent license should apply for his/her Illinois State Controlled Substance Number and his/her Federal DEA number. These numbers should be used instead of the hospital temporary DEA number. Forms to apply for the state and federal DEA numbers may be obtained from the Residency Coordinator.
Prescriptions for drugs that are not controlled substances may be written by a resident as long as such prescriptions are called for and incidental to his/her residency training.
Residents should not evaluate or treat conditions or illness in themselves or other persons, except where the other person presents as a patient in the resident’s training program or in officially approved moonlighting settings. To be authorized to treat or prescribe, a physician-patient relationship must exist and a record of the history, physical treatment and/or drug prescribed must exist and be maintained as a medical record.
Specifically, a resident shall not prescribe any medication (including controlled and non-controlled substances), pharmaceutical, or medical device or equipment for 1) him or herself, spouses, relatives or other family members; 2) for other residents and their families; 3) for other hospital staff including nursing and attending staff and their family members, unless a bonafide physician-patient relationship exists.
Failure to comply with these policies may result in discipline up to and including termination of the resident’s program.
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