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If you are on a q4 schedule, it sucks to be on call July 1. You get 92 on call days while the rest get 91 days.

How do programs make it so that it would be fair to all?
 
its called "sucking it up"..........welcome to residency!
 
USIMGgrad said:
If you are on a q4 schedule, it sucks to be on call July 1. You get 92 on call days while the rest get 91 days.

How do programs make it so that it would be fair to all?
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Wow, my friend. If you show a similar attention to detail and obsessiveness in watching lab values or counting up total dosing over time, that's a credit to you and a boon to your patients.

On the other hand, if you're also aware of how many days it takes for the "good" trauma smocks to make it through the hospital laundry... well, get some sleep.
 
southerndoc said:
I still can't believe you actually counted them up!
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LOL, that is pretty lame, insn't it?
 
As already noted, suck it up. There will be times when you have more call than your colleagues and times when you have less. There will be nights when you get sleep and your colleagues are running around like headless chickens and nights when the situation is reversed.

Call schedules are *usually* made in an attempt to be fair, but they are difficult to make, and someone will almost always get more calls than ther others. In the end, it works out to be relatively fair. Believe me, you will not notice 1 more call in the grand scheme of things.
 
I am on call my first day 😀
 
It sucks even worse to be a patient on July 1st.
 
edinOH said:
It sucks even worse to be a patient on July 1st.
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You always put things in good perspective. Although I'm off service in July, so let's be specific and say that it sucks to be having the big one and in the CCU July 1st.

mike
 
rajvosa said:
I am on call my first day and it will be in the ICU!!! 😀
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Seems like so long ago now, but my first call night in residency was also ICU. Don't stress it too much. Make friends with the nurses, for they will either be your torturers or your salvation, depending on how much they like you and how competent they are. If they're incompetent, your nights will be a living hell regardless, but if they know what they're doing (and they usually do in the ICU) then they can spare you a lot of middle of the night calls if they want.
 
I had call on my first night (it was in June, though, as my program started one week early). Their theory was: "you went to school here, so you should know the system." Nice of them to be so considerate 🙄 . Anyhow, I survived, although I can't count the number of stupid pages I made to my upper level resident (sorry residents!). Remember, if you don't know, or if you feel uncomfortable, ask for help. Most residents would much rather answer stupid questions than be told late about a big problem. Best of luck on that first call night! 👍
 
one word of advice..esp for the upcoming surgical interns...if you complain about the call schedule early on, chances are you will be "labelled" as lazy and a complainer.....after that happens your life WILL be made miserable for the rest of the year with the worst call schedule possible..ive seen this happen over n over again

moral of the story: bend over apply lube and take it in, and do it with a smile! 😀
 
USIMGgrad said:
If you are on a q4 schedule, it sucks to be on call July 1. You get 92 on call days while the rest get 91 days.

How do programs make it so that it would be fair to all?
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Hi there,
In the long term scheme of things, this won't matter much to you. In fact, it won't matter on July 2. Have fun!
njbmd 😎
 
I didn't count it up. It's pretty simple to figure it out. 365 days in a year divided by 4 gives you 92, 91, 91, 91.

southerndoc said:
I still can't believe you actually counted them up!
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Because its the first day of the year.

southerndoc said:
Uh huh, and how did you figure out what July 1 matched to the 92 days of call time?
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USIMGgrad said:
Because its the first day of the year.
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call in sick for one day and you will have 91 if you really worried about this one extra day....
 
If you're on call the first day of a 4 week cycle on a q3 ICU block then you get 10 calls instead of 9. So you get to learn more than your fellow interns. Just the way it goes.
 
USIMGgrad said:
I didn't count it up. It's pretty simple to figure it out. 365 days in a year divided by 4 gives you 92, 91, 91, 91.
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True... maybe the rest should buy you a beer or something. After all, they only have 98.91% as much call as you do, over the course of the year. (91 / 92 = 0.98913)

...and that's assuming that no one of you ever misses a day, ever, all year.
 
Febrifuge said:
True... maybe the rest should buy you a beer or something. After all, they only have 98.91% as much call as you do, over the course of the year. (91 / 92 = 0.98913)

...and that's assuming that no one of you ever misses a day, ever, all year.
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How will the changing of the times in October and April effect this (when we shift from daylight savings time to standard time then back to daylight savings time)?

I'm certain that one person won't be on call one day.

So it's possible that somebody 91's might not be equal. One might have 91 and one hour, another just 91, and the third 89 and 23 hours of call time.

Of course, it could fall that the 92 callday person has 92 days and one hour of call. That's scary!

Sorry, I'm just too lazy (and don't care) to look up who's getting screwed with that extra hour of call.
 
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