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According to FREIDA, it appears that most general surgery residency programs only have one 24 hour period off per week (averaged over 1 month). Does anyone know of a program that offers two consecutive days off even if it's only every other week? Also, what about generous yearly vacation time (e.g. 1 month vs. 2 weeks)?
I am mostly interest in Pacific and Mountain area programs with trauma exposure (e.g. USC/LA county, UW, UC @ Denver, UCSF-E. Bay, Utah, etc.)
I don't mind working hard when I'm on, but I'd like to be able to get to the mountains on occasion.
I love the lifestyle associated with emergency medicine but after having a little exposure to surgery during Ob-Gyn (I'm an MSIII and won't have my surgery rotation until the end of this year), I am now leaning more toward trauma surgery. Not to knock EM, it just seems that EM these days is mostly low acuity primary care without appointments (yawn) and the best cases are handed off to the trauma (=surgery) team.
Anybody else facing my dilemma?
I am mostly interest in Pacific and Mountain area programs with trauma exposure (e.g. USC/LA county, UW, UC @ Denver, UCSF-E. Bay, Utah, etc.)
I don't mind working hard when I'm on, but I'd like to be able to get to the mountains on occasion.
I love the lifestyle associated with emergency medicine but after having a little exposure to surgery during Ob-Gyn (I'm an MSIII and won't have my surgery rotation until the end of this year), I am now leaning more toward trauma surgery. Not to knock EM, it just seems that EM these days is mostly low acuity primary care without appointments (yawn) and the best cases are handed off to the trauma (=surgery) team.
Anybody else facing my dilemma?