Sleep...

[CuriousGeorge2]

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So, I'm on OB right now which is notoriously one of the tougher rotations in terms of hours and I am finding it very hard to get a decent amount of studyng in. I am usually up at 4:30 am and get back home at 7pm or so most days. By the time I get home, I usually have a really bad headache that makes it near impossible to study - they usually go away after a nap or night of sleep. I was thinking about sleeping shortly after I get home and getting up a little earlier so that I can at least get an hour or 2 of reading in before heading off to the hospital. The shelf is coming up fast and I really need to put the pedal to the metal at this point.

Another option would be to take a short nap, get up and study and then go back to sleep later. I am really hesitant to try this because I am afraid that I will oversleep when I go back to bad and that would be REALLY bad...

Is there anyone who has a similar sleep routine? What works for you guys?

 

[KeyzerSoze]

So, I'm on OB right now which is notoriously one of the tougher rotations in terms of hours and I am finding it very hard to get a decent amount of studyng in. I am usually up at 4:30 am and get back home at 7pm or so most days. By the time I get home, I usually have a really bad headache that makes it near impossible to study - they usually go away after a nap or night of sleep. I was thinking about sleeping shortly after I get home and getting up a little earlier so that I can at least get an hour or 2 of reading in before heading off to the hospital. The shelf is coming up fast and I really need to put the pedal to the metal at this point.

Another option would be to take a short nap, get up and study and then go back to sleep later. I am really hesitant to try this because I am afraid that I will oversleep when I go back to bad and that would be REALLY bad...

Is there anyone who has a similar sleep routine? What works for you guys?

When I was on OB, I had a similar schedule, and I just went to sleep pretty much as soon as I got home and studied when I had time at the hospital.

 

[CuriousGeorge2]

Anyone else? It's almost impossible to study in the hospital (whenever residents see me or the other student on the rotation reading a rev. book, they pull use away to run an errand/ do some task). I need a 2 hour block outside of the hospital to get anything of merit done... Is this kind of sleep schedule feasible or am I setting myself up for trouble because I'll be so tired by the end of the day in the hospital (even more than usual)?

 

[MilkmanAl]

If you need to study, and the residents make you do stuff whenever they see you, find a way to keep them from seeing you. That is, leave for a bit when things are slow so that you can study. I sure as hell wouldn't be cutting into valuable sleep to study OB.

 

[CuriousGeorge2]

My only worry is being labeled as unprofessional for being MIA; where do ppl sneak off to during the day and for how long?

 

[MilkmanAl]

I'm obviously not sure how your rotation goes, but I know that could have left at any time (or not even gone in) and not been missed.

 

[drizzt3117]

I'm obviously not sure how your rotation goes, but I know that could have left at any time (or not even gone in) and not been missed.

Didn't they keep you locked in a room by the nurses station? Not all ob rotations have such a little role for med students.

 

[MilkmanAl]

More or less. That's why that whole "I don't know how your rotation goes" part is in there. It sounds like many people's OB rotations are equally worthless, though, closet in the corner or no. Whether that equates to ability to disappear on a whim is obviously dependent on where you are.

 

[45408]

My only worry is being labeled as unprofessional for being MIA; where do ppl sneak off to during the day and for how long?

my OB rotation was at a hospital with a library - we could just go there and study/nap.

There was one day when we weren't responsible for deliveries (and would have been intruding on the student who was if we had been "helping"), and there were no gyn cases and no clinic, so me and another guy took a 2-3 hour nap 😀