Internship with no weekends?

[lucidstrength]

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Does anyone know of internship programs that do not require working on weekends during the PGY-1 year, or where the minimal hours would be?

I am a mom with 2 small kids and have been accepted to school but am trying to be realistic about what this would mean.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Captain Fantastic]

I know a guy (he's faculty here) that took 5 years to do his FM residency. He spread his intern year out over 3 years so he could have time to start a consulting business. The last two years he buckled down and finished the program. Of course he negotiated that deal with his program director.

 

[Catalystik]

There are shared internships (and residencies) where you and a partner split your training obligations (and a paycheck). So you work about 50% time (realistically, maybe closer to 60% each), and you decide with your partner what days each of you cover. Of course, you have to find a person willing to share like this. Drawback: said internship/residency takes twice as long.

 

[DrMom]

Just figure on weekends (at least 2 a month), long hours, and overnights. I'm in a decent internship & I average 65 hours a week (with a max of 93), have worked as many as 8 weekends in a row (had some weekdays off), and have worked somewhere around 75 nights this year.

While there are occasional programs that'll let you do the things that people have already suggested, they are very, very unusual. Plus, you're going to be working weekends, nights, and long hours during your third (and parts of your fourth) year of medical school, also, and in residency it doesn't usually change a ton after your intern year.

Instead of looking for the rare exeptions, plan for the norm. Do you have family to help out? Friends? This process is do-able as a mom, but you have to have a lot of backup.

 

[DrMom]

btw: please do not cross-post a thread in more than one forum. I'm closing this one, but people can still contribue to the open one in the gen'l residency forum.