Average Day

[deleted87716]

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I know😉

Don't worry, if I were you, I'd rather hang out with us, too. 😉

 

[HarveyCushing]

I've been told that residency is nothing like the real world. So while I spend a lot of time researching residencies I was wondering what you guys in the real world are doing. What is your average day like? Start time/end time? How many days a week do you work? Do you do all the procedures on one day or do you do them throughout the week? Any nursing home work? Other ways to to earn some money as a FM?

(yes, I read the sticky and realize that it varies with practice but that is the point I want to see the variety)

As a pre-med in college I shadowed a FP for a week to learn more about the field. He is a family friend and was really open with me about everything. As a note he was in a group with 2-3 other FPs that was under a hospital system. With his schedule he worked ~4 days per week and either 8am-1pm or 1pm-6pm. Either after/before his shift he would go to the hospital and round on his patients or catch up on charting/other misc things. Usually he would be done by 6-630. He mentioned that he makes about $150-170k a year which is decent for this part of the country (I'm not sure if he meant before/after taxes).

 

[deleted87716]

Thank you for getting the thread back on track. I'd almost forgotten what it was supposed to be about. 😉

 

[The_Sensei]

Don't worry, if I were you, I'd rather hang out with us, too. 😉

Whatever😉

 

[deleted87716]

Whatever😉

Seriously, you're becoming a fixture around here. You might as well stick around for a while. We're talking about underwear in another thread. Yee-ha! It's almost as exciting as Haiku!

Speaking of Haiku, enquiring minds want to know:

What's up with your name?
Do you practice martial arts,
Or just pretend to?

😉

 

[The_Sensei]

Seriously, you're becoming a fixture around here. You might as well stick around for a while. We're talking about underwear in another thread. Yee-ha! It's almost as exciting as Haiku!

Speaking of Haiku, enquiring minds want to know:

What's up with your name?
Do you practice martial arts,
Or just pretend to?

😉

Maintaining the 5/7/5 syllabic structure I respond:

The name indicates
what years of hard work provide:
the rank of black belt


Nice retort by the way.😎

 

[elischooley]

Could someone map out a typical day/week of a family physician for me? Do they do rounds? Do they take call? If so, do they take call during the day or just at night and on weekends?

Any imput would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Winged Scapula]

Here ya go (from a thread 4 positions below yours): http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=392067

 

[HarveyCushing]

Here ya go (from a thread 4 positions below yours): http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=392067

I actually thought about doing that, but I thought the OP would see it themselves and didn't need my help. Guess I assumed too much.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I actually thought about doing that, but I thought the OP would see it themselves and didn't need my help. Guess I assumed too much.

Never assume...assuming kills (in the words of one of my Vascular attendings).😀

 

[HarveyCushing]

Never assume...assuming kills (in the words of one of my Vascular attendings).😀

+1. Will especially remember that during med-school and residency.

 

[tatabox80]

As a pre-med in college I shadowed a FP for a week to learn more about the field. He is a family friend and was really open with me about everything. As a note he was in a group with 2-3 other FPs that was under a hospital system. With his schedule he worked ~4 days per week and either 8am-1pm or 1pm-6pm. Either after/before his shift he would go to the hospital and round on his patients or catch up on charting/other misc things. Usually he would be done by 6-630. He mentioned that he makes about $150-170k a year which is decent for this part of the country (I'm not sure if he meant before/after taxes).

How long had this guy been in practice?

 

[HarveyCushing]

How long had this guy been in practice?

Around 25 years. He was lucky in the placement of his PP building. It was in the suburbs that weren't really that large 10-15 years ago. But now it is one of the fastest growing areas. The medical center that he is associated with just got replaced with a brand new facility that is really nice.

I think another reason he does fairly well is due to the procedures that he does as well as doing OB.

 

[elischooley]

How does call usually work? Say you are in a mulit-member practice. Is a diferent person on call every night? What about weekends? What about during the daytime?

 

[HarveyCushing]

How does call usually work? Say you are in a mulit-member practice. Is a diferent person on call every night? What about weekends? What about during the daytime?

I think that depends on the individual practice. Some have it set up where each physician takes his/her own call. Others have one member take call for the whole week except weekends (another person takes weekend call). There are a few different variations on it. That is how the physicians explained it to me when I was shadowing them. I guess somebody else who is more in the know can add or correct me.

 

[deleted87716]

Merging with the other "Average Day" thread.