Can derms work from 9 to 5 5 days a week?

[warriormonk]

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Can derms work from 9 to 5 5 days a week with no on call or weekend shifts? How common is this setup?

 

[asmallchild]

Can derms work from 9 to 5 5 days a week with no on call or weekend shifts? How common is this setup?

that is the most common setup, actually i would say most dermatologists probably work 4 days/week

 

[Dr. Doctor MD]

Can derms work from 9 to 5 5 days a week with no on call or weekend shifts? How common is this setup?

The one thing to add is that taking call is more or less inevitable in almost every single dermatology job. Some groups have you on call 100% of the time for all of your personal patients, and other groups put you on call every X weeks (depending on the number of physicians in the group) in which case you cover all patients seen by all doctors at the practice for a week/month at a time. This type of call is almost entirely phone/home based, and almost never has hospital/ER responsibilities (although there are a minority of groups/institutions that do this). It's going to be extremely hard to negotiate taking 0 call, but the call you do take tends to be very light and rarely involves having to go in or deal with anything super acute.