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Hey all,
I'm a canadian medical student going through the match and I intend to do ICU. I keep reading on these forums that ICU has a terrible lifestyle with high burnout rates, but I'm kind of surprised.
In canada at least, it's considered to be pretty decent for lifestyle, fulltime is I think 18-20 weeks per year, when you work you are working hard, 80-100 hours is typical with various call structures, but then you have about 2 weeks off where some people actually take that time off or work their base specialty. I've worked with a bunch of doctors that stacked 2-3 weeks together and then took 4 weeks off for vacation. Renumeration is about 20-30k per week including procedures and depending on the structure. Note that this is for closed ICU.
So, why are things different in the US?
I'm a canadian medical student going through the match and I intend to do ICU. I keep reading on these forums that ICU has a terrible lifestyle with high burnout rates, but I'm kind of surprised.
In canada at least, it's considered to be pretty decent for lifestyle, fulltime is I think 18-20 weeks per year, when you work you are working hard, 80-100 hours is typical with various call structures, but then you have about 2 weeks off where some people actually take that time off or work their base specialty. I've worked with a bunch of doctors that stacked 2-3 weeks together and then took 4 weeks off for vacation. Renumeration is about 20-30k per week including procedures and depending on the structure. Note that this is for closed ICU.
So, why are things different in the US?