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Question answered so removed, thank you
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Being pulled to other services
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I'm not an expert, but as long as they are following duty hour restrictions and meeting their educational requirements overall for your residency, I think they can ask you to do anything extra they want. You certainly can complain to your residency department, but I wouldn't do so expecting them to be on your side.
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You can feel free to vent (I do too from time to time!) but pretty much everything is "allowable" as a resident. Sharing my own experience, I felt lucky at doing an outpatient substance use treatment rotation at the VA as a PGY-1, but I was still expected to take "short" call and provide weekend coverage with the other residents on the inpatient VA unit. Our PGY-3 year we do pretty much only outpatient, but still have a handful of weekend calls over the year.
Speak with your fellow residents and see what they think, but my advice is to have a better reason than "shouldn't this rotation count as an outpatient experience" but rather explain why it might be better for the program to have the time off so you can study for Step 3 or PRITE (even that is not a particularly compelling reason). Ultimately, each program is unique in what you'll be able to change (or "get away with"). I know mine is less friendly from that aspect, but I tell myself that "at least I'm learning" during that time. Good luck. 🙂
Speak with your fellow residents and see what they think, but my advice is to have a better reason than "shouldn't this rotation count as an outpatient experience" but rather explain why it might be better for the program to have the time off so you can study for Step 3 or PRITE (even that is not a particularly compelling reason). Ultimately, each program is unique in what you'll be able to change (or "get away with"). I know mine is less friendly from that aspect, but I tell myself that "at least I'm learning" during that time. Good luck. 🙂
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As soon as you are done with patients that YOU are responsible for, you should hide/disappear. If there's no resident then they can't pull you. 🙂
Also speak to your seniors and co-residents and ask if they've had the same experience. Maybe it's just one particular attending trying to get free labour from you.
Also speak to your seniors and co-residents and ask if they've had the same experience. Maybe it's just one particular attending trying to get free labour from you.
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I think asking residents doing outpatient to do call on other services is traditional and common. Now if you are covering other services during normal 40 hour work week and this cuts into your full time outpatient experience, then you may have something. Most programs have more than the minimum 12 months out patient so they could also call outpatient part time and still get you to cover other things.
