RECOGNITION

Article 1:

A) It is agreed that the Professional Association of Internes and Residents of Ontario represents all residents regardless of their source of funding in Ontario teaching hospitals save and except research residents as hereinafter defined, for the purpose of negotiating terms and conditions of employment in these teaching hospitals. It is agreed that residents have dual status; viz they are post-graduate medical trainees registered in approved university programs leading to licensure and/or certification; and they are physicians employed by the hospitals performing essential service functions.

B) A Research Resident (a resident engaged in research) is defined as a resident who: i) is funded by a source other than the Ministry of Health, and ii) who is undertaking as part of his/her training requirements a year of research, and iii) does not perform any clinical/service duties with the exception of those undertaken solely for the purpose of maintaining the resident's clinical skills, and iv) who is in a program which is acceptable to The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as leading towards certification in that program, or as described in Article 21.2(a). In any event such clinical duties shall not exceed four (4) hours in any week and no research resident shall take on call duties at home or in the hospital.

C) Pool C Residents The parties agree to implement the terms of the Shime arbitration award regarding Pool C residents, dated March 27, 2003, and attached to and forming part of this Agreement as Schedule A. It is agreed that Pool C residents will be entitled to receive the call stipend on the same terms and conditions as all other residents covered by this Collective Agreement. For further clarity, it is agreed that, subject to the benefits comparability terms of the Shime Arbitration Award and the Collective Agreement, the life insurance benefit for Pool C residents will be a fixed rate of $125,000 for the duration of the 2008 - 2011 Collective Agreement.

Article 2:

The hospitals as listed in Attachment 1 and the Professional Association of Internes and Residents of Ontario agree that The Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario shall be the employer organization representing the Teaching Hospitals for the purpose of regulating employment relations and negotiating changes in the terms and conditions of employment with the Professional Association of Internes and Residents of Ontario representing all residents.