Watch out, if a dainty 5 foot tall feminist like myself had been your resident and you blabbered such nonsense, I would have given you a punishment. You would be lucky if you could get out all week before 8 pm including postcall just because you pissed me off and I can do whatever I want with you while you're working under me.
Dainty sickly little women get pregnant and legally we are entitled to not having to put up with the hefty workload alone if we get sick. Residents are a team and everyone pitches in. I've fainted on the job and had teammates cover for me. Doesn't make me a mediocre doctor, I love my job despite the sucky parts of it.
However, I also know what it means to have freebee extra vacations. Med students seem to be overestimating the learning curve they get at their rotations. It's not.. bad per se, but it's nothing in comparison to being an intern where you're responsible for the shift. I had nights where I was responisble for up to 5 services and delivered the shift of two services virtually at the same time (and once got caught and scolded for it instead of a pat on the back for being so awesome for pulling such a feat 100% alone). Delivering 50 patients to the next shift all alone is tough stuff man.
Chances are, you'll learn more about ID as an intern living it than a student just watching it as a bystander for a few hours. If you can graduate without doing the rotation and have your residency slot already matched, I'd say screw it, skip it and go to Cancun and enjoy a margarita because you're going to thank yourself for doing it.
I was fresh out of vacations when my internship started (I had about 2 months off) and was glad I had those valuable 2 months to rest. It's tough on the body, mind and spirit. You're everyone's lapdog. A med student can disappear to go have a smoke somewhere and people will forget they were there to begin with, but an intern is expected to be working or if they are gone somewhere, they at least finished the pending work.
I enjoyed my internship year, but I'm glad it's over. As a social service junior doctor, there's a possibility that I might be forced to do call starting August at a local hospital. However, luckily I have a magical piece of paper the hospital i did my internship in that will make me jump that hoop. I heard the hospital junior doctors are expected to do their call in, the hospital's interns are famous for their laziness. I didn't live what I lived to degrade myself to being the chacha (derogatory spanish term for housemaid) of someone with less schooling experience as I did. If residency is going to be so damn tough, I wish to enjoy my paid vacations year. I already have a lot of paperowkr and social events to attend, no need to be a douchebag and get tired too soon.
I'd skip that month if I were the OP. Now, if the OP is going to do residency in internal medicine, then skipping it would be a bad idea. But infectious disease isn't relevant in OB/GYN where most of your work is focused on delivering babies, babies and more babies. Not much infectious stuff going on there.
