You start out at 4 calls a month and end up at 5 calls a month. As the Junior resident, I only cover the main OR and not OB. Half the calls are quiet....finish up by 10pm. You're up all night roughly 20% of the time. (usually a liver transplant)
There is a heavy emphasis on didactics from the attendings. We spend every wednesday afternoon in class. and it's protected time. free lunch and drinks on the dept. We have a 2 year cycle of lectures arranged by systems...ob, peds, cards, physics, pharm.
Our classes usually average in the 80th percentile on the boards..obviously EVERYONE PASSES. in fact... the class of 2003 averaged 91%.... the cards fellow here told me she got 97th percentile on boards.
Not much research.... the admin. canned the Pain program and with it all the NIH funding.
several projects underway in peds airway stuff, caudal blocks in adults and rapid thermistor/continuous cardiac output measurement in cardiac surgery . We're not MGH or BW when it comes to research or reputation, but we kicka$# on boards.
