Do you guys get time off during the holidays?

[bestcoast]

Just spoke to my rotation leader today, per institution agreement, I HAVE to take some time off during the holiday. Based on the minimum and the holiday schedules of other residents, I need to start taking time off tomorrow and I only have to work on the 27 and 28 until I get back to work on the 3rd. Is that the same for you guys?

I think I might show up to work on the 26th just to help out my co-interns.......

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[Perrotfish]

Just spoke to my rotation leader today, per institution agreement, I HAVE to take some time off during the holiday. Based on the minimum and the holiday schedules of other residents, I need to start taking time off tomorrow and I only have to work on the 27 and 28 until I get back to work on the 3rd. Is that the same for you guys?

I think I might show up to work on the 26th just to help out my co-interns.......

I get 96 hours off for one of the three major holidays:Christmas vs News Years vs Thanksgiving. If they say go home then go and don't come back. No one wants people helping on their time off, it just sets a precedent no one else wants to follow.

 

[samsoniter]

agreed, take the time off and enjoy it!

 

[Dejavu]

" If they say go home then go and don't come back. No one wants people helping on their time off, it just sets a precedent no one else wants to follow."

This.

 

[mass1]

working at VA has its perks - off xmas eve, xmas, NYE, new year's day

 

[45408]

I think I might show up to work on the 26th just to help out my co-interns.......

Noooooo.

Like Perrotfish pointed out, that sets a bad precedent. Then for the next holiday, the staff will wonder why the other residents don't come in on their days off like bestcoast did.

 

[Top Gun]

Just spoke to my rotation leader today, per institution agreement, I HAVE to take some time off during the holiday. Based on the minimum and the holiday schedules of other residents, I need to start taking time off tomorrow and I only have to work on the 27 and 28 until I get back to work on the 3rd. Is that the same for you guys?

I think I might show up to work on the 26th just to help out my co-interns.......

NO! Go enjoy your holiday. Your co-interns will survive. Like everyone else has said, if you show up on your day off, the staff will expect other interns to come in on their days off too. Also, your fellow interns may start taking advantage of you by expecting you to cover their calls for them when you're supposed to be off. As an intern, you're in the hospital enough hours during the week. When you get time off, take it.

 

[LucidSplash]

And I'll say the snarky truth that underlies all of this: You're not that important. Unless for some bizarre reason your program has totally rewritten their playbook this year, this holiday schedule has been done before and there's enough manpower to cover all the bases. Your co-residents will survive without you. You need to do yourself a favor and learn to enjoy life outside the hospital and LEAVE your work behind you when there's the opportunity. Don't be that guy who actually believes that the hospital world will fall apart if he's not there and let's the world outside the hospital fall to pieces instead. Learn balance.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I agree with all the above posts. Take that time and go with it. Not using it only screws you and possibly future residents by making the expectations different.

As for here, we don't get specific allotted hours off for the holidays on top of regular vacation. However, our clinics close, and the inpatient services go to a weekend like schedule where one resident covers rather than the whole team, meaning if you're on that rotation, you get the day off if you're not on call.

 

[45408]

As for here, we don't get specific allotted hours off for the holidays on top of regular vacation. However, our clinics close, and the inpatient services go to a weekend like schedule where one resident covers rather than the whole team, meaning if you're on that rotation, you get the day off if you're not on call.

Likewise. The only people here on Christmas morning is the post-call team and the on-call team.

 

[peppy]

Yes, PLEASE do not be that guy who comes to work on holidays or vacation days. An attending "jokingly but not entirely joking" asked me if I wanted to hang around late after my shift ended because one of my co--residents had done so. It was awkward for me to find a diplomatic way to say no.

If you want to be nice to the people on call for the holidays, you could consider dropping off some good takeout so they at least have something good to eat while they're stuck there, but that should be the extent of it.
I had to come in to round on Christmas day, but thankfully we treated it like a weekend and only the on call people had to stay all day.

 

[Winged Scapula]

During residency we got four days off either before Christmas, during Christmas, after Christmas or over New Year's. I always preferred working over Christmas since the hospital was very quiet and the clinics are closed and then taking New Year's off.

I absolutely agree with the others that you should not come in as it sets a precedence or expectation that your colleagues will do the same which is unfair to them.

 

[docu]

a PD or other staff could get in trouble or cited if you stay past what you are allotted. so by all means, take a vacay!

 

[Cali2]

Just spoke to my rotation leader today, per institution agreement, I HAVE to take some time off during the holiday. Based on the minimum and the holiday schedules of other residents, I need to start taking time off tomorrow and I only have to work on the 27 and 28 until I get back to work on the 3rd. Is that the same for you guys?

I think I might show up to work on the 26th just to help out my co-interns.......

Wow, that's a tough situation, how dare your program *force* you to take the holidays off...

You're lucky to have the time off. Go enjoy it!

 

[Taciturngosamer]

We get 5 days at either Christmas or New Years... Take the time off and enjoy/ nobody likes a stool pigeon

 

[genswim24]

We get 5 days at either Christmas or New Years...

Just curious as to which 5 days these tend to be. Is it like 24th through 28th 29-2nd off?

Thanks

 

[LucidSplash]

Just curious as to which 5 days these tend to be. Is it like 24th through 28th 29-2nd off?

Thanks

We also get 5 days at Christmas or New Years. For us, this year, the schedule is:

Christmas: 22-26
Everyone back: 27-28
New Years: 29-2
Everyone back: Jan 3rd

 

[genswim24]

We also get 5 days at Christmas or New Years. For us, this year, the schedule is:

Christmas: 22-26
Everyone back: 27-28
New Years: 29-2
Everyone back: Jan 3rd

Thanks for the info, that schedule makes more sense.

 

[Taciturngosamer]

Thanks for the info, that schedule makes more sense.

We get 12/22-26 everyone back 27 then 12/28-1/1

 

[Buzz Me]

In both residency and fellowship, it all depended on the chief and the given rotation. So sometimes we'd get 3-4 days off either around Christmas or New Year's, and sometimes nothing. This year, nothing.

 

[lockjaw]

We get 4 days at either Christmas (12/24-12/27) or New Year's (12/31-1/3). The holiday that we don't have off, we're assigned 1-2 shifts to cover (which could be anything, not just the rotation that we're currently on), and then we are usually on sick/backup call the other couple of days of the holiday.