sleep deprivation

I am about to enter internal medicine rotation/ residency with 28 hours shift with no or minimal sleep. How can I maintain my concentration and performance in such sleep-deprived and heavy workload environment?

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Hello All, I'm a podcaster who writes/posts about premedical and medical education. Recently, I witnessed several of my med student friends and roommates go through 30-hour shifts for their surgical rotation. Some got through it fine, but some were quite worn down, some took leaves of absence...

From the Discussion section.... “During the most intense learning period of their lives, medical students and residents are rarely able to maintain regular sleep schedules due to their high workload and are therefore often sleep-deprived and/or suffer from poor sleep quality (Curcio et al...

I already asked this question in the med students forum, but I wanted to hear you guys' take. I hope this is allowed, lol. I was curious. Most fields that require very intense amounts of training require some form of indoctrination or programming. I assume that's true for the field of medicine...