Weiss Transitional/Prelim

[m3unsure]

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Hey guys,

How are your prelims? Mine sucks at UofM, but I knew that going in. However, my buddy is at Weiss Memorial in Chicago, and he says his days are ending pretty late on non-call days (6pm). There is night float so I guess that's not bad. So when most of you guys getting out every day?

And in terms of lectures per week, how many hours per day or per week? He told me 1 hr of morn report, 1 at lunch, and then teaching cr@p 2hr 3x/wk. That's seems like a lot and more than what I have.

 

[fedupme]

UofM means which University??

 

[GassiusClay]

I've heard some not so good stuff too about Weiss.

The night float system is not good for some reason. People on long call are leaving past midnight and coming back at 730am. Is that violating the 10 hour between shift rule or not? Don't know if that applies in this situation. If so, someone should report this and put the admin on the chopping blocks.

And by the way, what is the total hours of lectures/morning report needed per week?

 

[gutonc]

The night float system is not good for some reason. People on long call are leaving past midnight and coming back at 730am. Is that violating the 10 hour between shift rule or not? Don't know if that applies in this situation. If so, someone should report this and put the admin on the chopping blocks.

I know nothing about that particular program but our NF system works the same way. It's not a work hour violation though b/c our long call days count as 30h shifts, even if we go home. So NF comes in at 8 and takes code pagers and all admits after that (7:30 really...we usually just put holding orders in unless we've had a chill day and the ED says they have 6 more waiting to come up). This gives you time to finish your work and, hopefully, go home for awhile. A while can range from 2-8 hours depending on how your day went. You then come back in the AM, present your new patients, round on your olds, d/c, call consults put in orders and go home by 2, thereby avoiding the work hour violation.

Not sure if that's how it works at Weiss or not. My med school made people go home by 9p on call nights (w/ NF) so they could come back @ 7a but turned a blind eye when most teams didn't leave until MN or so b/c there was too much work to do. I like the current system much better.