End of the Year Party

[CopperStripes]

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Does your program have a yearly housestaff party during which time all residents are excused from clinical duties, and attendings take care of the goings-on at the hospital?

 

[Smurfette]

Does your program have a yearly housestaff party during which time all residents are excused from clinical duties, and attendings take care of the goings-on at the hospital?

Yes. We called it the in-service exam. Everything came to a screeching halt during those hours.

Not exaggerating.

 

[group_theory]

Does your program have a yearly housestaff party during which time all residents are excused from clinical duties, and attendings take care of the goings-on at the hospital?

It's amazing how the number of pages comes to a screeching halt when the nurses find out the attendings are "first-call" and as soon as the residents return to their clinical duties (from the party, or in-service, or after a required meeting), they get paged bomb from every nursing units and every services

It is also nice of the attendings (some of whom volunteer to cover) to cover the services (although I think there is a lot of behind the scene begging and pleading from the chiefs)

 

[LucidSplash]

Well there IS a year-end BBQ hosted by one of the attendings. Anyone who is not working is free to go. But the call schedule continues and whoever is on just misses for that year. It tends to even out or there are always a couple residents who never go to anything and who can be put on call that day. Same goes for the Christmas party.

To echo Smurfette, our attendings DO carry the pagers during the in-service exam every January. This year they split the exam over 2 days so they didn't have to do that. Which is good because last year I think our PD had the surgery code pager? Thankfully there were no codes.

 

[Winged Scapula]

It's amazing how the number of pages comes to a screeching halt when the nurses find out the attendings are "first-call" and as soon as the residents return to their clinical duties (from the party, or in-service, or after a required meeting), they get paged bomb from every nursing units and every services

LOL...that was certainly my experience at our favorite med center.

 

[Buzz Me]

The last Saturday morning every January, during the ABSITE (Gen Surg in-service exam). For about 3 hours. But you can be sure we heard about it for the next two weeks.

 

[blue2000]

We had a ski day each winter. From 7AM to 7P, attendings covered. I was the night float ICU resident as a second year, and I vividly remember the 2 inch stack of orders and other paperwork that greeted me when I arrived.

 

[Roguelyn]

Yes. We called it the in-service exam. Everything came to a screeching halt during those hours.

Not exaggerating.

Same here. We work until the exam starts and return to work after.

We have asked to have one night where we are all off, even just for a few hours so we could all hang out...but haven't been granted that request.