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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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Blade28
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:
What, do you have to put your makeup on?
EM, 45 minutes before shift, shower, shave, eat, 7 minute commute.
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!Apollyon said:
southerndoc said:
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.
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.
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.
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. 😉
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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!
Can't wait till my FP inpatient rotations when I don't have to be there until 7 am!
It's 2:56am right now. WTF am I doing up?
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.
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.
i was thinking the same thing: how are these peeps even ON the internet having to wake up when they do?!yaah said:
Jova said:
why dont you just stay at the hospital?
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b&ierstiefel
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.yaah said:
ramonaquimby said:i was thinking the same thing: how are these peeps even ON the internet having to wake up when they do?!
that wasn't me that said that.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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njbmd
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 🙂
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 🙂
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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.
G-surg folks: RU guys getting up at these hours straight through all 5 clinical years? Or are these PGY1/2 hours?
yeesh.
yeesh.
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Blade28
Varies - tends to get better during your senior years though.
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?
Has anyone gotten in trouble for dragging a** in the morning if they are a night person?
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Blade28
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.
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"!
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Blade28
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 😀
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:
Not really in trouble, but definately gotten the "evil eye." Oh well, Fu(%'em
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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.
NoNews said:
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).
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Blade28
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.
I'm also worried about the "shakes" in the OR, so I don't want to become too dependent.
