The Attack of Medical School Senioritis
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medical student hours
As a student just finishing with my third year, I regularly worked over 80 hours per week. The 80 hour limit applies to residents. For medical students at my institution, it's only a guideline. Both on transplant and surgical oncology I was working over 100 hours per week. So actually, the pre-med is correct.
I do intend to use my 4th year for consolidation. I will do 3 Sub-Internships and a critical care rotation in the SICU. But I also will be scheduling easy rotations and time off for interviewing. Getting into a good residency program where I will be best trained over the next 4 years is much more important than taking 4 weeks of sub-i versus outpatient peds/radiology.
Is it really broken?
I wrote a blog post on this issue earlier this week - http://www.medrants.com/archives/4508
The fourth year is important for consolidation.
To the commenter who complained about 100 hours a week 3rd and 4th year - you are wrong. 3rd year students work under 80 hours per week and 4th year students have a few months of 80 hours/week, but mostly much less.
Ask almost any 3rd year student and they will tell you they are much happier than they were during the first 2 years, despite the work hours.
Response to Jill
Jill,
You already sound bitter, and it appears you have not even begun medical school yet. If you aren't up for the rigorous education and training that all physicians necessarily endure, then consider another profession.
Terrific
Awesome, as someone going to medical school in the fall, I not only have higher tuition bills, government mandated doctor compensation, nurses who will earn more than I will, increasing legal threats, but now I will also have to bust my ass 100 hours a week third and fourth years (how dare we have a semblance of a normal life even for a second)!
I didn't sign up for this to be a slave. I would have joined the army if I wanted to torture myself for nothing in return and no break or end in sight. This article is absurd. The public needs to get a clue and get off doctors cases. Do we really have a problem with doctor education because of the 4th year or are some old-schoolers just trying to bust our ass at every available opportunity to make sure our lives are hell because theirs were too.
Well Yes!
Yes, Med School seniors coast. That is the way it was 27 years ago when I was in that position. After busting my rump for four years of college and the first three years of Med School, it was time for a break. With the prospect of the following three to seven years being the shear hell of Internship and Residency, it makes perfect sense to allow developing medical professionals some slack in their senior year of Med School. The idiotic idea that the fourth year is not challenging or robust enough is put forth by academic full professors with little or no understanding of the real world of the student. Let them coast! They will be working hard soon enough.
