I'll include my schedule beneath as well for comparison.
pillowhead said:
Surgery - average six days a week. 5am-6pm for a regular day. Call is typically overnight, every fourth night and you stay until noon the next day.
12 weeks, 6 days per week, usually 1 golden weekend per month, broken down into the following:
1. Trauma/ICU: Arrive 4:30am, leave usually around 3-4pm, longer if a patient getting a PEG/Trach. Overnight call Q3-Q4.
2. General surg: Arrive by 6am, leave around 7-8 pm depending on case load. Overnight call ranging from Q4-5 depending on number of students on service.
3. Plastics: Arrive 7am, leave around 5-6pm, also take G-surg call.
4. VA: Arrive 5-5:30, leave 6-7 pm, No call.
pillowhead said:
Ob/Gyn - average five to six days a week. 6am-6pm for a regular day. Call is typically overnight and was about every sixth night at my school.
6 weeks, 6 days per week, you take L&D call until 11pm Q4-5 throughout the entire rotation, Everyone on Gyn clinic and L&D does postpartum prerounds in AM, broken down as follows:
1. Labor and Deliver: Arrive 4:30 am for preround, leave around 6 pm.
2. Gyn Clinic: Arrive 4:30 am, leave clinic around 5pm. Only do clinic 5 days per week.
3. Gyn Surg: Arrive 5:30 am, dismissed usually around 5-6.
pillowhead said:
Internal Medicine - average six days a week. 7am-5:30pm for a regular day. Call is usually every fourth night but at many places, there is a night floast system in place so you usually leave around 10pm and are expected to work a full day the next day.
12 weeks, 8 weeks inpatient and 4 weeks outpatient, inpatient overnight call was Q8, no outpatient call.
1. Inpatient: arrive anytime between 6-8 am to preround depending on attending and how many patient you are carrying (I had anywhere from 3-6 patients), usually leave around 5 pm.
2. Outpatient: arrive 9 am, done around 5 pm
pillowhead said:
Peds - average five to six days a week. 7am-5:30pm for a regular day with call every fourth night. My school had night float, so again, you stay late but not overnight and work a full day the next day.
6 weeks, 6 days per week. Broken down as follows:
1. Inpatient: 2 weeks, overnight Q4 call, arrive 5am, leave around 5-6 pm.
2. NICU: 2 weeks, two overnight calls, arrive 4 am to preround, leave like 6 pm.
3. Clinic: 2 weeks, 5 days per week, no call, arrive 8 am leave 6 pm.
pillowhead said:
Neurology - five days a week with an occasional weekend day thrown in. 8am - 5 pm with a late call once a week or so. No overnights for students at my school.
Didn't have a required rotation.
pillowhead said:
Psychiatry - five days a week with an occasional weekend day call thrown in. 8am - 4:30 pm with late call once a week or so. No overnights.
6 weeks, 5 days per week, all outpatient, no call, arrive 9am and leave by 5pm
pillowhead said:
Family Medicine - five days a week, 8am - 5pm at my school. no overnights.
6 weeks (including 2 weeks on inpatient service), 5 days per week.
1. Inpatient service- work two full weekends including overnight call on Friday and Saturday nights where I would admit anywhere from 2-4 patients per night. Arrive at 6am for preround, leave usually by 4 pm.
2. Outpatient- no call, arrive at 8am and leave at 5pm.