what are your weekend call schedules?
how many weekends off in a month?
night float or not?
how many weeks vacation?

as for me , two weekend s on call( one friday-sunday and the other saturday) and 2 off....as i understood it . and a 2 month NF starting first year itself.
thank god for the 4 week vacation .

your inputs?

We don't have night float. Our month-long rotations vary from Q3 to Q5 call. We average 4 days off a month. 3 weeks vacation a year.

what are your weekend call schedules?
how many weekends off in a month?
night float or not?
how many weeks vacation?

as for me , two weekend s on call( one friday-sunday and the other saturday) and 2 off....as i understood it . and a 2 month NF starting first year itself.
thank god for the 4 week vacation .

your inputs?

For what specialty? Do you mean entire weekends (Sat-Sun) off? They have those?
For IM:
My schedule varies from Q3 (VA ICU/CCU), Q4 o/n (Univ. Units), Q5 w/ night float (VA floor), Q5 o/n (Univ. Floor). 7 total call months. 2 weeks VA night float, 4 weeks vacation, 2-4 weeks ER w/ variable shift schedule, 1 month Geri floor (PA staffed o/n), 1 ambu month and 6-8 wks consult electives.

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i guess it sat- sun off ...2 of those makes it 4 days in a month. remaining 2 weekends on call.
this is for ob gyn.

What is this thing you call a "weekend"?

well the thing i call a "weekend " is saturday and sunday.

i was not counting friday night.. .for all practical purposes.....it would be too much to expect friday , saturday and sunday off in residency

radonc-

1 week on, 3 weeks off (home pager call).

Path

Off most weekends

When on call (once a month maybe) I'm at home unless there's an autopsy or a frozen which often doesn't happen all day

Mysophobe, I totally heard your question in Zoidberg's voice in my head. LOL.

radonc-

1 week on, 3 weeks off (home pager call).

God I wish I were smart enough to be in rad onc. :) That sounds awesome.

Night float rocks. The hospitals I'm rotating at through residency don't have any overnight call anymore. You have the nightfloats and even in the ICU's you have an ICU night float team. It rocks.

So only short call for me (ie leave by 8-10p.m)

Doing emergency medicine so no call most of the 3 years anyway., but on my offservice rotations i'll have night float!! yipppee!

oh, and did I mention my ED shifts are 8's !!

got love it baby

Night float rocks. The hospitals I'm rotating at through residency don't have any overnight call anymore. You have the nightfloats and even in the ICU's you have an ICU night float team. It rocks.

So only short call for me (ie leave by 8-10p.m)
Doing emergency medicine so no call most of the 3 years anyway., but on my offservice rotations i'll have night float!! yipppee!
oh, and did I mention my ED shifts are 8's !!
got love it baby

Damn thats nice! Is it too late to switch? :D

We have one "golden weekend" a month in which we have both Saturday and Sunday off.

Our night float runs from Sunday night to Thursday night, so you are done on Friday morning and don't come back until Sunday night. It's nice to have every Saturday off, but the downside is, you're on night float. It's a pretty rough month, since the intern and the senior are the only residents in our ~250 bed hospital. But you learn a ton. We have 4 weeks of night float in our intern year and then two weeks in our second and third year.

And we get 3 weeks of vacation a year.

250 beds in the hospital - but are they all FP patients?

About 75% of them are. There are some general surg and some ortho patients, but the majority are FP/IM (all of which we cover).

That's impressive, two residents covering 200+ patients. Very impressive.

Transitional Year - below is what i have put together before orientation.

4 wks vacation
weekends (and holidays off) on almost all months unless on call. average 4-5 calls a month.

2 interns cover 300 beds when on call. :scared:

Atleast I'll have many "golden" weekends in the great city of chicago.

That's impressive, two residents covering 200+ patients. Very impressive.

Wow I agree - I'd go insane taking care of 200+ patients.

Yeah our program averages 4 days off a month. Inpatient you never get a golden weekend since you always have to come in one of those days to insure continuity of care, whether you're on call or not (which makes Sunday call VERY appealing). Outpatient you take call for other services, but I think I had one golden weekend... it was so long ago... :laugh:

three golden weekends off a month (one a three day weekend -call on thursday giving you fri-sat-sun)
one weekend a month call
three weeks vacation
gotta love gas!

That's impressive, two residents covering 200+ patients. Very impressive.

Yeah, it can get nerve-wracking. But it's an awesome learning experience. (I can say that now as I am almost done with internship and will soon have call-free months :laugh: )

We have night float system so on most ward months, we have only two overnight weekend calls a month:

1) Friday to Saturday (Sunday off)
2) Saturday to Sunday ("black" weekend)

Then, there's one Sunday shortcall--night float takes over at 8pm (Saturday off).
And finally, there's one "golden" weekend with Saturday and Sunday off.

So, it averages 4 days off a month.

Yeah, it can get nerve-wracking. But it's an awesome learning experience. (I can say that now as I am almost done with internship and will soon have call-free months :laugh: )

I don't think I'll ever have call-free months. :(

Another man doing gas. Generally we have 2 weekends off completely. sometimes a thursday call means 3 day weekend. Post call we ALWAYS leave at 7 am. next day pretty much do what you want. Working about 60-65 hrs/wk. Life is definitely more manageable than the intern year (i.e medicine).