Lifestyle during Psych residency & afterwards

[arc5005]

Hi there,

I'm curious about lifestyle during residency and after residency for psychiatry. Also, for those specialized in Child & adolescent psychiatry or other sub specialties.


Hours worked per week/month (during residency):
Hours worked per week/month (after residency):
Vacation days/weeks (during residency):
Vacation days/weeks (after residency):
How stressed were you?
Did you have a spouse/child during residency?

Residency Match:
Were you able to get your first or second pick?

Salary:
Do you feel well compensated?

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[Dharma]

You can find it all right here: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...y-great-articles-books-in-psychiatry.1066849/

Seriously, that sticky link is awesome. Just control-f what you're looking for and it should be there.

Major props to the folks who put it together. A few regular posters played their parts in putting that thing together. Great stuff.

 

[milesed]

Hours worked per week/month (during residency): depends on year
Hours worked per week/month (after residency): now 40/week
Vacation days/weeks (during residency): 2 weeks
Vacation days/weeks (after residency): varies by years you have been employed here- I have 15 years and get 8 weeks for combined sick/vacation
How stressed were you? depends on the patient and family's behavior sitting in front of me at the moment
Did you have a spouse/child during residency? I was married and it was great, no kids until after.

Residency Match:
Were you able to get your first or second pick? yes

Salary:
Do you feel well compensated? Yes, but I get more for administrative duties than others here (and I earn it dealing with others' BS)

 

[arc5005]

Hours worked per week/month (during residency): depends on year
Hours worked per week/month (after residency): now 40/week
Vacation days/weeks (during residency): 2 weeks
Vacation days/weeks (after residency): varies by years you have been employed here- I have 15 years and get 8 weeks for combined sick/vacation
How stressed were you? depends on the patient and family's behavior sitting in front of me at the moment
Did you have a spouse/child during residency? I was married and it was great, no kids until after.

Residency Match:
Were you able to get your first or second pick? yes

Salary:
Do you feel well compensated? Yes, but I get more for administrative duties than others here (and I earn it dealing with others' BS)

Thank you for the response! Do you remember how many weeks of combined sick/vacation you received when you first became an attending physician.

 

[milesed]

years-
1-4 get 24 8 hour days per year
5-9 get 30
10-15 get 33
15+ get 36
We also get 9 holidays off a year.
We can accrue 600 hours before we start losing it and can also get comp time for working late, into lunch, etc. up to 22 hours. I am at 14 years here and over 600 hours before I realized I was losing hours of leave. It gets hard to use more than 4 weeks off a year, but I will certainly try.

 

[SteinUmStein]

How common are outpatient group practice/clinic positions with no call component and no inpatient unit coverage? Is weekend/night call the exception or the rule in the private practice world? I've only seen the academic/VA side of things which seems to be pretty distinct from private practice.

 

[peppy]

From my experience most jobs do expect you to do some call. There are a few out there with no call or that pay you more for taking call.

 

[milesed]

It is common to have "light call" if working only as an outpatient psychiatrist for your group's patients. Most ER or inpt call is where your lifestyle takes a dramatic hit. When we pulled out of inpt and ER work, it was one of the best days of my life.