Parental Leave Policy

Parental Leave Policy: Maternity/Paternity Leave

Fellows are provided with 6 weeks of paid maternity leave and 2 weeks of paid paternity leave.  Fellows should notify their Program Director and Administrator as far in advance as possible of the request for personal or maternity/paternity leave.

When requesting a Leave of Absence, please consider the following:

• The ABIM allows one year of training to be interrupted by only four weeks, including vacation, sick leave, educational leave and Maternity/Paternity Leave.
• Any time off exceeding four weeks will extend your training.
• You will need to complete 36 months of training by 8/31 of the year you intend to sit for the ABIM certification exam.

If you take maternity leave (6 weeks paid) or paternity leave (2 weeks paid), consider the following:

• This leave time in addition to any vacation time could extend your training.
• Maternity Leave (6 weeks paid):
  4 weeks – If no vacation time was used in the year, you do not need to be make up these 4 weeks of maternity leave.  And it is paid time.
  2 weeks – This time will need to be made up, but it is paid time

 **Anything past this will not be paid and all time over four weeks will need to be made up.

Salary Source During Maternity Leave

• The first 14 days of maternity leave, 100% of salary is paid by the U of MN
• Weeks 3-6, 30% is paid from the U of MN, 70%  is from the short-term disability carrier