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Off the top of my head, from what I can remember:
Stanford - no call during R3 & R4
UCSF - call throughout R1-R4 (albeit decreasing)
San Mateo - voluntary call, get paid if you do take it
Cheers
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Loma Linda is actually less call than that in the current system, something around q8-9 and long call is usually only once to twice a month and usually only on weekends due to the nightfloat system. Long call is brutal when you have it, but it is infrequent enough that it isn't a big deal. The difficulty of call is due to covering three hospitals and the heavy volume that comes with that. Currently, there is some talk of revamping the call system next year to decrease the workload of call, but would probably involve increaing the actual number of calls. Nobody is quite sure how it is going to go yet.
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Interesting. Personally, I'd vote for less frequency with greater intensity.
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That is usually my feeling as well. My life would be all roses if it wasn't for call. There is nothing like the pure rage that boils up when my pager goes off at 2:30 in the morning and the post-call PTSD when you want to curl into a ball and whimper whenever someone's beeper goes off. Or when your co-worker leaves the darned default beep on that you use only when you are on call and then she DOESN'T ANSWER HER STUPID PAGER AND JUST LETS IT BEEP AND BEEP WHILE SHE FINISHES WHATEVER SHE IS DOING!!! ANSWER THE FREAKING PAGER...(tears shirt off and skin turns green)...ARRRGGGGGHH! HULK SMASH!!! YAAARRRRGGHH!!! And then you regain control and everyone is just kind of looking at you. That's happened to you guys too, right? ...er...ah, no that never happens to me either...Ha ha...my I do let my imagination run away with myself sometimes...ha ha...ha...phew, is it warm in here?
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Wow.
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Anyone know what the call schedule is for UCLA-SFV? Thanks
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I saw the word "California" in the title and got all excited. I want to go home so bad 🙁
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I don't know personally what the schedule is but we had a visiting student who said that's the program they wanted in to, strictly because of the light call schedule...
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I guess I can post about my own program---
UCSD--
year 1 - q6 on average. First 2 months are tandem with R3's staying with you overnight. This is at UCSD hospital and is high volume, high learning.
year 2 - q12 on average. At VA only, which is lower volume and frankly less learning.
year 3 - q6weeks (this may change to a tapered additional tandem call where you do 1 week each semester of staying until 10pm to supervise the interns)
UCSD--
year 1 - q6 on average. First 2 months are tandem with R3's staying with you overnight. This is at UCSD hospital and is high volume, high learning.
year 2 - q12 on average. At VA only, which is lower volume and frankly less learning.
year 3 - q6weeks (this may change to a tapered additional tandem call where you do 1 week each semester of staying until 10pm to supervise the interns)
