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I thought it would be interesting to see how early we all wake up, which residency we're in, and commute time. I wake up 6 am, in IM, commute 25 minutes.
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volvulus said:
I thought it would be interesting to see how early we all wake up, which residency we're in, and commute time. I wake up 6 am, in IM, commute 25 minutes.
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You wake up at freaking 6 am? What program are you at? I usually have to be there at 6:15 and see all my patients (and know them decently) before rounds. It sucks...so when do you get to the hospital - 7:30, 8 pm?
 
I can't belive your guys' luxurious schedules!!

I have to be at work (surgery) at 4:45 am. My commute time is 25 minutes, so I usually wake up at 3:45am!!!
 
I'm doing General Surgery - I wake up around 3:15, and it takes 10 minutes to get to the hospital, so I get there around 4, preround to be ready by 6 for team rounds.
 
southerndoc said:
My wakeup time varies by rotation. With EM, I usually wake up at 5:30 for the 7am morning shifts (commute time 10-15 mins). Some of the off-service rotations I have to be up around 4:30 or 5 to be there by 5:30 or 6 am.
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What, do you have to put your makeup on?

EM, 45 minutes before shift, shower, shave, eat, 7 minute commute.
 
I have to be at the hospital by 7:30. Although I leave late like around 5:30-6pm
 
southerndoc said:
Eat, surf the web, watch the news... hopefully wake up to a beautiful girl, but she's in England visiting her parents for the summer. Argh!
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I usually need about and 1-1 1/2 hours to get ready before I get to the hospital. Most of the time my drive ranges from 10minutes-30minutes depending on which hospital. And yes, I do need time to put on the makeup, it is also nice to relax before rounding.
 
Up at the crack of 0745, at the hospital at 0800.

In psych we've got to be available 24/7!

(That's 24 hours a week, seven months a year)
 
I just finished gen surg internship-
earliest up was 3:30, get dressed and at hospital by 4 am, but that was only for a few months, usually up at 4 or 4:30am and at hospital by 5am. 5-10 minute commute depending on traffic lights (shower the night before). Home anywhere from 6 to 11pm. There were a couple months of "light rotations", starting anywhere from 6:30 am till five, too.


On ENT- so far a light month, grand rounds at 7:30 am on Friday so was up at 6 am, will be the same for OR days, later if clinic all day (at work by 8 or 9). I like to eat breakfast before work if possible and shower that morning. Will get much busier when I am at the county hospital and not the VA anymore.
 
I'm up at 4:30, commute time 15 minutes, at the hospital by 5:15. Ob/gyn on gyn surgery right now.
 
volvulus said:
I have to be at the hospital by 7:30. Although I leave late like around 5:30-6pm
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Ummmmmm .. "late" = 5:30-6?!?! I don't even want to hear about your 'early' rotations!! 🙂
 
Also general surg - I've been getting up at 4-415am, and trying to get to hosp by 5-515 am. I'm new at doing all my orders/notes by computer (I'm at a VA right now), so I anticipate my pre-rounds/note writing to take less time as the month goes by. Maybe I can start sleeping in til 430 soon. 😉
 
avgjoe said:
Ummmmmm .. "late" = 5:30-6?!?! I don't even want to hear about your 'early' rotations!! 🙂
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I was thinking the same damn thing...we don't even sign out that early!
 
Doing general surgery now as part of my FP internship, and I usually get up around 4:15-4:30 to get to the hospital around 5:15 (15 or 20-minute commute). Start seeing pts at 5:30, have to meet up with the team to run the list at 7:00.

Can't wait till my FP inpatient rotations when I don't have to be there until 7 am!
 
OB/GYN on Gyn surgery - Up at 4:15, to the hosp before 5 am.
 
Pathology:

Anatomic path rotations: Up at 5:30 take my time getting ready in at 6:30 or so, but don't really have to be in until 8.

Clinical path rotations: Up about 6:30, in by 7:30, but don't really have to be in until 9 unless there is an 8am conference.
 
yaah said:
It's 2:56am right now. WTF am I doing up?
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i was thinking the same thing: how are these peeps even ON the internet having to wake up when they do?! :laugh:
 
Jova said:
I can't belive your guys' luxurious schedules!!

I have to be at work (surgery) at 4:45 am. My commute time is 25 minutes, so I usually wake up at 3:45am!!!
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why dont you just stay at the hospital?
 
yaah said:
Pathology:

Anatomic path rotations: Up at 5:30 take my time getting ready in at 6:30 or so, but don't really have to be in until 8.

Clinical path rotations: Up about 6:30, in by 7:30, but don't really have to be in until 9 unless there is an 8am conference.
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Yeah, same here. I don't have to be in until 8 am for morning conference on M-F. If I cover the frozen section room, then I have to be in at 7:30 am. I've been getting up between 2-5 am these days but that's because my pre-residency sleep hours were all F'd up and I'm trying to get my sleep schedule normalized. I think I'm aiming for getting up at 6 am and commuting into work at around 6:30 or 7 am to organize the day and get a few little things done before 8.
 
how can all you surgery people get there at 4 am, leave at 5-6 pm and be 80 hour compliant? Do you not take call or something???

IM, up at 5:30, 20 min commute, there by 6:15-6:30. I probably should be there a bit earlier so I am not so rushed, but then there won't be any vitals or labs to write my notes with.
 
retroviridae said:
how can all you surgery people get there at 4 am, leave at 5-6 pm and be 80 hour compliant? Do you not take call or something???

IM, up at 5:30, 20 min commute, there by 6:15-6:30. I probably should be there a bit earlier so I am not so rushed, but then there won't be any vitals or labs to write my notes with.
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5 am - 6 pm = 13 hours x 5 days = 65 hours
We have night float, so there's no q4 or any of that. We've got one 12 hour call on either Friday night, Saturday day or Saturday night (or on the fourth week, the weekend off)
Total = 77 hours

And remember, alot of what we're doing right now, getting in this early, is because we're slow....
 
General Surgery (Peds, at busy regional pediatric hospital w/ two fellows)

Up at 5:00, 15 minute commute; at hospital by 6:00.

Collect labs & vitals, run the list at breakfast at 6:30.

Out the door between 3pm and 7pm depending on the day.

Q4 call; out by noon the next day, sometimes by 10.
 
It's highly dependent on service, and right now I'm out at our ridiculously busy community hospital. Wake at 3:10a, leave at 3:40a, have parked my car and on the floor by 4am. Leave on average 6:30p. In bed between 9-9:30p.

All this changes next month when I'm back at the Big House. We don't wear scrubs outside the OR, so that's real clothing in the am, and bit more hair/make up prep (but that's still 15 min tops), and my walk is only 7 min. Cases start a bit later, too.
 
retroviridae said:
how can all you surgery people get there at 4 am, leave at 5-6 pm and be 80 hour compliant? Do you not take call or something???
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No comment. I plead the Fifth.
 
Blade28 said:
I'm doing General Surgery - I wake up around 3:15, and it takes 10 minutes to get to the hospital, so I get there around 4, preround to be ready by 6 for team rounds.
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Ditto here. Up at 3, in by 3:45 for pre-rounds at 5:30 on 25 patients. Home by 6-8PM. It's murder right now.
 
Hi there,
I wake up at 0345h so that I can get my exersise in before going to the hospital. I am required to be at the hospital between 0530h and 0545h. I have a ten-minute commute. Usually get home around 1830 and in bed by 2200h. I am a PGY-4 General Surgery resident.
njbmd 🙂
 
just finished my first year of anesthesia, usually wake up at 6-6:15, take my time shaving and a 5-10 minute commute gets me into my room at 6:55 usually make my drugs the night before so I'm all set ready to see my first patient at 7:00 for a 7:30 start. I get there about 15 minutes early if I have to mix drips or do extra lines. During our cardiac rotation the first case goes in at 6:45 so you are getting in at 6:00 sharp, probably a 5:15 wakeup for that one. Out usually between 4-5:00pm, overnight call is Q7-8 and another couple of short calls during the month.
 
So, in summary, the "early bird" specialties are: (in decsending order)

1) General Surgery
2) OB/GYN
3) Others.....


10) Pathology 😴

😉
 
Ha ha Ha... poor surgeons... I'm in Rads... up at 8:15 for 9 AM conference... home by 4 or 5 PM...

just kidding...

doing transitional year but looking forward to that kind of schedule next year...
 
yaah said:
Pathology:

Anatomic path rotations: Up at 5:30 take my time getting ready in at 6:30 or so, but don't really have to be in until 8.

Clinical path rotations: Up about 6:30, in by 7:30, but don't really have to be in until 9 unless there is an 8am conference.
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So that's why it takes you guys 3 freakin' weeks to finish a path report! Just kidding... sorta....
 
radiation oncology:
i wake up at 7, to get there by 7:50 for conference, and leave at 5pm.
 
Internal Medicine
Up @ 6:30AM
OTD by 7:00AM
Commute 30 mins
Home by 5-5:30PM depending on traffic
Short calls (til 9pm) unless its a Fri or Sat
 
G-surg folks: RU guys getting up at these hours straight through all 5 clinical years? Or are these PGY1/2 hours?
yeesh.
 
mary said:
I just finished gen surg internship-
earliest up was 3:30, get dressed and at hospital by 4 am, but that was only for a few months, usually up at 4 or 4:30am and at hospital by 5am. 5-10 minute commute depending on traffic lights (shower the night before). Home anywhere from 6 to 11pm. There were a couple months of "light rotations", starting anywhere from 6:30 am till five, too.


On ENT- so far a light month, grand rounds at 7:30 am on Friday so was up at 6 am, will be the same for OR days, later if clinic all day (at work by 8 or 9). I like to eat breakfast before work if possible and shower that morning. Will get much busier when I am at the county hospital and not the VA anymore.
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Where do you rotate?
 
For those of you doing off-service rotations for your residency, how much of a difference is there between your field and the off-service?

Has anyone gotten in trouble for dragging a** in the morning if they are a night person?
 
My off-service rotations have been nice. Gyn onc, ortho, anesthesia - no call, no weekends!

Everything else has been rough though.

And I was forced to "become" a morning person starting third year of med school. It's painful, but necessary.
 
starting with considering 4am the "morning"!
 
Yeah, it was a rude awakening in med school when I had to start waking up before 4, in order to start prerounds by 4-4:30. Ah, good times.
 
EM

Up 1.5 hours before shift, for a 30 minute Yoga routine, a 30 minute commute, and 30 minutes to eat breakfast and watch the news and take the dog out, etc.

Off-Service

Medicine - up at 0530 to be at the hospital by 0700.
Trauma - up at 0430 to be there at 0600
PICU - up at 0500 to be there at 0630.
EMS - up when I am up 😀
 
vtucci said:
Has anyone gotten in trouble for dragging a** in the morning if they are a night person?
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Not really in trouble, but definately gotten the "evil eye." Oh well, Fu(%'em
 
During my general surgery internship year I was up at 4-4:15 and at the hospital by about 5-5:15. The 80 hour work week was completely non-existent, as we were routinely at the hospital until late in the afternoon post-call, not to mention scrubbing in on cases post-call (also illegal). We were lucky if we got 2 days off a month.
 
What's the average daily caffeine intake?
 
NoNews said:
What's the average daily caffeine intake?
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Don't know about residency yet since I start in July, but during med school I averaged approx. 1 pot/day. Tried to quit once during first year. Biiig mistake!
 
NoNews said:
What's the average daily caffeine intake?
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I've cut down a lot lately. Now it's just one cup of coffee in the morning before work, one around the middle of a shift, and depending on when I get home, maybe one then. On off-service rotations where rounding is a part of the day, I also have one pre-rounds (the only way to keep it up).
 
I try not to drink much coffee - maybe the occasional cup during conference (1-2 cups per week). Luckily I don't have problems with caffeine addiction yet.

I'm also worried about the "shakes" in the OR, so I don't want to become too dependent.
 
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