you get vacation time and personal days...that depends on the program, but can be anywhere from 2 -4 weeks..if you choose to take all that time off between internal and 2nd year, well, you are in for a very long 2nd year...you are not in school anymore...residency is a job...you don't get the summers off.
My program gave all the interns (depending on the calendar for the year) 4-7 days of unpaid vacation before starting second year. This basically let the new interns (who started work ~June 23) work their first week under the supervision of the old senior residents. Their contract would then end ~June 22 (after a full year) and the new one wouldn't start July 1. The other two contracts were July 1-June 30, so no time off after pgy2.
Actually I believe this is common in many other programs (where there's a transition period for the pgy3 to work with pgy1) although my program didn't.
Er, at least that's a break.
My program was set up this way. But we got paid for it. The downside was that we otherwise only had 2w of vacation intern year, this week was our 3rd week.
