Hate mornings

[kobebryant]

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MS-1 here. I hate waking up in the morning and prefer to sleep in. I consider myself a night owl and get most of my work done late in the day. Are there any specialties that can allow me to work only nights? EM seems cool but are there any others?

 

[2012mdc]

MS-1 here. I hate waking up in the morning and prefer to sleep in. I consider myself a night owl and get most of my work done late in the day. Are there any specialties that can allow me to work only nights? EM seems cool but are there any others?

Teleradiology

Maybe a hospitalist that always works 7P - 7A

Anesthesiologist who works part time and only works afternoons/nights?

Any specialty that involves clinic would be hard so that eliminates a lot.

 

[VisionaryTics]

I hate waking up in the morning and prefer to sleep in.

In case you didn't know, this applies to pretty much everyone in human history.

Try to adjust your sleep schedule. Get 8 square a night. Use the preclinical years as a consequence-free time to reset your sleep habits/hygiene, because no one cares that you "prefer to sleep in" from M3 through residency/fellowship/rest of your career.

 

[2012mdc]

In case you didn't know, this applies to pretty much everyone in human history.

Try to adjust your sleep schedule. Get 8 square a night. Use the preclinical years as a consequence-free time to reset your sleep habits/hygiene, because no one cares that you "prefer to sleep in" from M3 through residency/fellowship/rest of your career.

I disagree. There are people who are "morning" people and get more work done early on and fade later in the day. Not everyone has the same circadian rhythm. I had classmates who were at school at 5 or 6AM doing work before class because they worked better in the morning. Also had classmates who didn't go to class because they preferred to sleep in and stay up until 3 or 4AM doing work.

 

[officedepot]

OP you will have to get used to it. The world for doctors gets started around 7 AM for most fields, 5 AM for surgery. Lots of family med people I knew usually got in around 730 AM to get ready for the day, first patient normally 8 AM. There are fields that you can do night work but that's not advantageous to stay up all night and sleep all day. I'd advise looking for something with a later morning start. Psych usually is later morning, 9 AM or so. EM maybe depending on the shift. Anesthesia gets started early (630-7 am) but also get done early (at my main hosp usually 3-4 pm).

I too am not a morning person but that's mainly because I stay up too late. So my advice is to start going to bed earlier now. I am normally still up at midnight, despite having to wake up at 5 AM normally, and know that can't be normal... because it isn't. Makes 3rd year very hard even on easier rotations. Get between 7-8 hours each night and you'll be good. Once you get going in the morning it's not too bad, it's really when you get home in the evening around 5-6 and then it hits you.

 

[2012mdc]

OP you will have to get used to it. The world for doctors gets started around 7 AM for most fields, 5 AM for surgery. Lots of family med people I knew usually got in around 730 AM to get ready for the day, first patient normally 8 AM. There are fields that you can do night work but that's not advantageous to stay up all night and sleep all day. I'd advise looking for something with a later morning start. Psych usually is later morning, 9 AM or so. EM maybe depending on the shift. Anesthesia gets started early (630-7 am) but also get done early (at my main hosp usually 3-4 pm).

I too am not a morning person but that's mainly because I stay up too late. So my advice is to start going to bed earlier now. I am normally still up at midnight, despite having to wake up at 5 AM normally, and know that can't be normal... because it isn't. Makes 3rd year very hard even on easier rotations. Get between 7-8 hours each night and you'll be good. Once you get going in the morning it's not too bad, it's really when you get home in the evening around 5-6 and then it hits you.

For me it doesn't matter if I go to sleep at 10 or midnight; if I have to be up early like 6AM I will be not be as rested as I would like

 

[Dr Love]

MS-1 here. I hate waking up in the morning and prefer to sleep in. I consider myself a night owl and get most of my work done late in the day. Are there any specialties that can allow me to work only nights? EM seems cool but are there any others?

I'm right there with ya buddy. The answer is no, we will just have to get used to suffering the rest of our lives because of those douchebags who think 5 AM is a reasonable time to start operating.

 

[wholeheartedly]

Ok, not a doc or med student yet but I work nights in an allied health field.

Yes during training and what not you'll just have to get used to it.

However, there are quite a few people who hate working nights in any field that requires it. This opens up some great avenues for bargaining 🙂 once you're done training. So it might be quite possible to negotiate sparing other docs their night shift rotations in any speciality where they have them. You might also be able to negotiate later clinic start times since you're doing nights or a rotating schedule where you're heavily on nights evenings for most weeks with one week of days to keep those skills up or do clinic. If you do private practice you might be able to have an after hours clinic for people who don't want to have to miss work to go in to the doc or bring their kids in.

EM/urgent care and any hospitalist or critical care type position, neuro intensivist, possibly surgery in a place big enough to need someone on site at all hours, rads, EM psych?, sleep maybe?

 

[Marcus Brody]

EM is probably the worst thing you could do. Morning person, night person, either way it will suck because you'll do both. The only EM-consistent circadian rhythm is a lack of a circadian rhythm.