Bookmark311 Posted January 27, 2020 Report Share Posted January 27, 2020 How much spare time do u have while on surgery rotation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptors905 Posted January 27, 2020 Report Share Posted January 27, 2020 6 hours ago, Bookmark311 said: How much spare time do u have while on surgery rotation? Very busy. Typically day starts around 6am and runs until 5pm when not on call. Mix of OR and clinic and ward work. When on call you are usually fairly busy as well doing consults and OR assist and call is frequent. It’s one of the busier rotations in terms of time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NLengr Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 18 hours ago, Raptors905 said: Very busy. Typically day starts around 6am and runs until 5pm when not on call. Mix of OR and clinic and ward work. When on call you are usually fairly busy as well doing consults and OR assist and call is frequent. It’s one of the busier rotations in terms of time So glad I am a staff now and don't need to start at 6 am anymore. For the record, I'm community based so it's not like I have residents to do my rounding at 6 am either. Raptors905 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowmen Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 My rotation was usually 7h00-7h30 to 16h00 with call until 23h00 once a week (including at least one weekend day during the rotation). Obviously, that wasn't a typical surgery schedule and was mostly the result of going in a small community hospital for that rotation, which is what I'd recommend if you don't want to match to surgery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGrisham Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 12 hours ago, Snowmen said: My rotation was usually 7h00-7h30 to 16h00 with call until 23h00 once a week (including at least one weekend day during the rotation). Obviously, that wasn't a typical surgery schedule and was mostly the result of going in a small community hospital for that rotation, which is what I'd recommend if you don't want to match to surgery. That is a very kind surgery rotation! Hopefully other non-surg hopefuls can emulate that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 28 minutes ago, JohnGrisham said: That is a very kind surgery rotation! Hopefully other non-surg hopefuls can emulate that. Yup ha Also would depend on the type of surgery as well. My cardiac surgery rotations (in another life I was considering being a cardiac surgeon ha) was much more involved (6-6 or latter etc). Still they do try to generally be reasonable now for most places and most sub fields. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGrisham Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 8 hours ago, rmorelan said: Yup ha Also would depend on the type of surgery as well. My cardiac surgery rotations (in another life I was considering being a cardiac surgeon ha) was much more involved (6-6 or latter etc). Still they do try to generally be reasonable now for most places and most sub fields Yeah, my medical school general surgery clerkship was 6am-5/6pm and then of course commute time. With 1in4 call overnight until latest 8am. Nice thing about surgery was rounding was so early and they were good about sending you home right after rounding/handover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchpress Posted February 6, 2020 Report Share Posted February 6, 2020 On 2/2/2020 at 9:47 AM, Snowmen said: My rotation was usually 7h00-7h30 to 16h00 with call until 23h00 once a week (including at least one weekend day during the rotation). Obviously, that wasn't a typical surgery schedule and was mostly the result of going in a small community hospital for that rotation, which is what I'd recommend if you don't want to match to surgery. I too did my surgery rotation in a smaller community hospital. Similar hours, with sightly more call (~2 per week), but I could do it from home and only about half the nights were crazy with consults or OR time. The trade-off was I had no post-call days because it was only evening call, so I still found it to be one of my most exhausting rotations. But still seemed like it was a much more relaxed rotation compared to what many friends in the city were subjected to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiceham Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 On my gen surg rotation years ago in a large tertiary academic hospital, my day starts ~5:20am for prerounding. Residents come around 6am for rounding. First OR starts at 7:30-8. Day ends at ~1730-1800 when not on call. If on call, day ends the next day at 11-12ish (because we do team call so have to take care of all the ward stuff/discharges before leaving). The PGY-1 routinely stayed until PM on post call days. Calls were 1/3 to 1/4. Surgery was great but I'm glad those weeks were over... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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