Who has a 6 day week?

[duiplfrog]

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Hello all- new to posting on the forum but have read many posts.

I know some programs work 5 days a week and some work 6 which leaves no time for family weekend fun in my opinion! I'm all for working hard but 6 days a week for 4 years would be brutal.

Anyone know about these schools:
1. U Mass
2. Yale
3. U Washington
4. OHSU
5. Vanderbilt
6. Duke
7. Emory

Thanks for any input.

 

[atsai3]

You probably want to be more specific about what you mean by "6 day week". If you work 5 days a week but have q5-7 call, including some Saturdays and/or Sundays, then it amounts to 6 days per week. At most psych programs, you will be doing this for the first 2 years.

-AT.

Hello all- new to posting on the forum but have read many posts.

I know some programs work 5 days a week and some work 6 which leaves no time for family weekend fun in my opinion! I'm all for working hard but 6 days a week for 4 years would be brutal.

Anyone know about these schools:
1. U Mass
2. Yale
3. U Washington
4. OHSU
5. Vanderbilt
6. Duke
7. Emory

Thanks for any input.

 

[duiplfrog]

Thanks for pointing that out. I am more specifically asking about programs where you are scheduled to work 6 days a week not including call (so working either Sat or Sun every week). thanks!

 

[whopper]

Working 6 days a week unfortunately is within the ACGME requirements. However I have only seen 1 Psychiatry Residency program do that--North General Hospital in Harlem NYC. This was when I applied for residency 4 years ago so things may have changed.

6 days a week is not the norm for psyche residencies, its the exception, but I would still be on the lookout. I have nothing against working hard. It'll make you learn more, but there is such a thing as being overworked because its cheap labor for the hospital, or its exploitation from the attendings to the residents to only make their lives easier.

Programs that make residents work hard but in an educational manner typically make them do academic things such as a required research project, presentations, go to conventions, teach medstudents etc. When they just make you do "service" related work and a heck of a lot more than other programs--that's a signal that its scutwork. Double check & see what's going on there.

 

[duiplfrog]

To update...
I think Vandy has residents work 6 days a week...
You are right, there is a difference between learning and just being labor.

 

[bama]

At Vandy we work 6 days a week on most of our Inpatient Psych Months during the first and second year. However, the weekend days are just for rounding unless you are on call, and most people leave the hospital around Noon on those days. However, during our first year we only take call to 10 p.m. on Psych rotations (medicine is overnight) and during the second year, there is a night float system, so call and weekend work decreases dramatically. I say all of this to warn that 6 days a week may mean a lot of different things and don't base your decision on that fact until you check the program out. 6 days of educational work may be much better than 5 days of really gruelling schedules where learning is not a priority.