As far as hours, workload, outside obligations, etc... or are the first 3 IM residency years worse?
As far as hours, workload, outside obligations, etc... or are the first 3 IM residency years worse?
First year of fellowship was probably the worst of my life.
As far as hours, workload, outside obligations, etc... or are the first 3 IM residency years worse?
Even that's variable. Where I did residency, the P/CC fellows were never in house at night, not even as first years. So they might have 3 or 4 months of every other night home call as PGY4s and certainly worked more daytime hours than the residents, but they worked fewer weekends and no in-home nights compared to even our PGY3s.I can speak for CCM - definitely worse as a fellow.
Even that's variable. Where I did residency, the P/CC fellows were never in house at night, not even as first years. So they might have 3 or 4 months of every other night home call as PGY4s and certainly worked more daytime hours than the residents, but they worked fewer weekends and no in-home nights compared to even our PGY3s.
Where is this heaven you speak of? Lol.
WTF? As an IM resident, I got more than 5 tubes in my first two years and got 2 chest tubes.This is how it was where I did my residency. Was terrible critical care training but they churned out decent pulmonary docs. There were fellows graduating with 5 intubations and some never placed a chest tube.
Oh, our fellows did plenty of procedures. Just in the daytime. They had a few hundred bronchs and something like 70 perc trachs by graduation, plus a fair # of the usual random stuff (lines, tubes, etc).This is how it was where I did my residency. Was terrible critical care training but they churned out decent pulmonary docs. There were fellows graduating with 5 intubations and some never placed a chest tube.
Depends on a) the residency b) the fellowship and c) what you are planning to do after fellowship (i.e. do another fellowship, do you need to still publish during fellowship, etc).As far as hours, workload, outside obligations, etc... or are the first 3 IM residency years worse?