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Just wanted to take a quick poll. When does intern year orientation start for everyone?

June 25th for me.

Orientation June 25, day one July 1.

June 6th. A little on the early side.

We start on June 25th, with a one-day orientation on the 20th.

Orientation June 18th. Official start June 25th.

Orientation 6/25.

June 9th

Orientation June 18
Work Starts June 25

June 11th with official start date of June 19th.

Originally Posted by diehardobgyn

June 11th with official start date of June 19th.

Your actual start day is crazy early. Do you still end 3 years later or do you have an extra couple of weeks of residency?

6/26 for orientation, technically start 7/1, not sure if I'll be in hospital that day or not (depends on schedule I haven't received yet).

Originally Posted by Perrotfish

June 9th

June 9? Do you end on June 9 2013 then? If not they should pay you overtime

Originally Posted by Perrotfish

Your actual start day is crazy early. Do you still end 3 years later or do you have an extra couple of weeks of residency?

Four years later, but yes we do get done with residency earlier.

June 18th and 19th orientation. Official start June 25th.

Always thought it was July 1, but seems orientations push the date earlier. I start June 18

The new residents will have orientation starting June 18th with the first work day, July 1st.

For most places is the orientation the entire week? I'm trying to plan next summer (MSIV right now, planning on TY year) and want to know if I can expect to have the Thurs-Sun (20th-23rd) off in June. I'm guessing that most places will start on June 24th next year... is this safe to assume or will I be required to be present the entire last two weeks of June?

Originally Posted by jopo

For most places is the orientation the entire week? I'm trying to plan next summer (MSIV right now, planning on TY year) and want to know if I can expect to have the Thurs-Sun (20th-23rd) off in June. I'm guessing that most places will start on June 24th next year... is this safe to assume or will I be required to be present the entire last two weeks of June?

Assume that you will be required to be at your residency program starting June 15th. Although if you scan up a few posts, you'll see that some people started their orientation 2 weeks ago.

Orientation starts on Monday June 25, goes trough the whole July, for university based FM program. Wonder what we will do whole July ?! First day will start in August with internal medicine.

Originally Posted by Weim

Orientation starts on Monday June 25, goes trough the whole July, for university based FM program. Wonder what we will do whole July ?! First day will start in August with internal medicine.

5 weeks of orientation? Seriously? What kind of fresh hell is this?

Originally Posted by Weim

Orientation starts on Monday June 25, goes trough the whole July, for university based FM program. Wonder what we will do whole July ?! First day will start in August with internal medicine.

ew.

Originally Posted by gutonc

5 weeks of orientation? Seriously? What kind of fresh hell is this?

That's what our program (also family medicine) did.

The first month of "orientation" included:

- 4 days of EMR training (we have two systems, one for clinic, and one for the hospital).
- Review of how to read fetal heart tracings, how to do a pap correctly, EKGs, X-rays, etc. Some review of procedures (suturing, etc.)
- Orientation to the outpatient office, including billing, Medicare rules, etc. Basically, "how not to defraud the government."
- 1 week per intern on the inpatient medicine service
- 1 week per intern seeing patients in the outpatient clinic
- Several days per month covering triage phone messages, etc.

Basically, since the first year of FM is so inpatient oriented, they try to get you some outpatient exposure your first month, so that your 1/2 day of clinic per week for the rest of the year is a little bit less painful.

Our new interns start orientation next week on June 27th with first interns taking call on 30th then starting first oration block the following Monday. They only have a few days of dedicated "orientation" with ACLS, EMR, hospital policies, etc.... For the first few weeks most of the morning and noon lectures are focused towards interns with common inpatient issues and emergencies.

Originally Posted by gutonc

5 weeks of orientation? Seriously? What kind of fresh hell is this?

A month long orientation is actually pretty common in EM residencies; we have one and it's essentially 1-2 shifts a week w/ daily lectures or workshops. Pretty useful in my opinion.

Originally Posted by turkeyjerky

A month long orientation is actually pretty common in EM residencies; we have one and it's essentially 1-2 shifts a week w/ daily lectures or workshops. Pretty useful in my opinion.

That's not orientation, that's an education month. And I agree, it sounds super useful.

Our ID program does something similar. Lots of lectures and journal club type things, no clinical responsibility other than a hald day of clinic each week.

Originally Posted by jopo

For most places is the orientation the entire week? I'm trying to plan next summer (MSIV right now, planning on TY year) and want to know if I can expect to have the Thurs-Sun (20th-23rd) off in June. I'm guessing that most places will start on June 24th next year... is this safe to assume or will I be required to be present the entire last two weeks of June?

Plan to start earlier. Make sure to ask on the interview trail if its important