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Procedural specialities will always need an extreme amount of hours spent honing their skills. Considering that your experience is the basis for a good outcome
by assblaster 7y ago
Procedural specialities will always need an extreme amount of hours spent honing their skills. Considering that your experience is the basis for a good outcome for your future patients when you are solely responsible, you know that the more you work the better off you'll be.
The procedural specialities operate on a hierarchy that emphasizes underlings doing most of the grunt work while senior residents can be all day in the operating room. There's likely a better way to do it, but this is how it has been done for decades and just won't change.
- percutaneous 7y agoPerhaps working 50 hour weeks and being well rested would result in faster and more efficient learning than working 80 hours. Yes - you have to do your time, but humans don't learn well sleep deprived. You could try and force them to work 100, or 160 hours per week and I suspect you'd rapidly find quality of work and learning nosedive. I think it's worth considering 80 hours is already on the wrong side of that curve.
- heterochromatin 7y agoDo not make the mistake of undervaluing experience gained from an unbelievable number of hours in cognitive specialties as well.