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Residents work 12+ hour days six to thirteen days in a row. Sometimes the days are longer. After ten hours you’re not learning. You’re existing and enduring.
by jounker 5y ago
Residents work 12+ hour days six to thirteen days in a row. Sometimes the days are longer.
After ten hours you’re not learning. You’re existing and enduring.
Right now medical students are applying to 80+ residencies, and even at top schools some are failing to match.
The system is incredibly broken.
- dzink 5y ago12 hrs is nothing. In many places the shifts are 24 hrs. In surgery residency, most only get to scrub in after they've done all of their admin work - so many deliberately push their hours to get more of what they need the most - OR time.
- rcpt 5y agoMy wife is a family medicine resident and explained to me that she has a 28 hour shift next month
- 908B64B197 5y ago> Residents work 12+ hour days six to thirteen days in a row. Sometimes the days are longer. ... for absolutely no results. Spend any time on a busy hospital ward, and you'll see overworked residents trying to one up one another in an attempt to impress whoever is in charge. "I've slept the least hours, therefore without me this floor would collapse". It's institutionalized hazing and cargo culting, nothing more.