Does your fellowship use "reading days"?

[ecCA1]

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Several friends of mine, including those at Columbia, take one non-clinical day a week on average under the auspices of it being a chance to catch up on non-OR learning.

How common is this? Do most anesthesiology fellowships have a non-clinical day?

 

[Precedex]

Several friends of mine, including those at Columbia, take one non-clinical day a week on average under the auspices of it being a chance to catch up on non-OR learning.

How common is this? Do most anesthesiology fellowships have a non-clinical day?

Sounds pretty cushy. I'm jealous. I've never heard of it anywhere.

 

[Masseter Spasm]

This really is not that odd. These "reading days" serve a number of purposes. They can be used for clinical research, job searching, or actual reading. This dedicated non-clinical time is especially useful if you are preparing for the boards or trying to learn a skill like TEE.
By doing a fellowship you are sacrificing a year of your life to gain additional subspeciality training or skills. You are also forgoing the income you could make as an attending. These non-clinical days are deserved.

 

[cchoukal]

mine does not have reading days, although there is often some downtime each day to do some reading.

 

[ProRealDoc]

Several friends of mine, including those at Columbia, take one non-clinical day a week on average under the auspices of it being a chance to catch up on non-OR learning.

How common is this? Do most anesthesiology fellowships have a non-clinical day?

Fellowships at my institution give you an extra day of work instead.

 

[foxtrot]

Fellowships at my institution give you an extra day of work instead.

No doubt!
Man, I wish I would have had non clinical days. You are some lucky sons of &^!@'s.