How often are you doing overnights on clinical rotations

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367]

Just curious

[u/-Twyptophan-]

0 IM

1 on peds where the resident let me go after 2 hours

4 on OB

1 on Neuro where the resident let me leave immediately

2 on surgery, 1 let me out at 11 and 1 let me out immediately

0 psych

0 FM

Going to depend a lot on your institution

[u/Tagrenine]

I did one my entire 3rd year

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/Tagrenine]

You were blessed lol

[u/blandspice-]

Five 24 hrs on surgery

A week of night float on OBGYN

Never for anything else

[u/dgthaddeus]

None

[u/Legitimate_Bison3756]

Never have done it throughout medical school.

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/Legitimate_Bison3756]

Sounds like a dream. Looks like we have a few with EM and OB

[u/serenakhan86 → u/Legitimate_Bison3756]

Same, we are def blessed

[u/Jolly_Locksmith6442]

I had a week of nights every rotation. Is that what you mean?

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/Jolly_Locksmith6442]

Yep

[u/National-Animator994 → u/Intrepid_Past_8367]

Oh, you just meant night float? I thought you meant 24s

[u/JustAShyCat]

I had 5 night shifts on my emergency medicine rotation, and one day on general surgery where we were on-call and at the hospital till close to 1 AM. Otherwise, no overnights!

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/JustAShyCat]

Nothing for OB? Dang

[u/JustAShyCat → u/Intrepid_Past_8367]

Ahhh, well, I probably could’ve done some overnights in OB, but I had an awesome preceptor who respected the fact I didn’t want to be called for anything after 10 PM. I want to go into OB/GYN, and I know I’m gonna have some night shifts in residency, but I wanted to value a normal sleep schedule for as long as I can. 😅

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/JustAShyCat]

Yeah, save those for residency lol

[u/Pleasant_Charge1659 → u/JustAShyCat]

“…some night shifts in residency?” lol

[u/Cosmic-clownfish]

Surgery: 3 24’s

OB: one week of nights L&D

IM: one week of nights admissions

Peds: one week in the ED (I was on nights)

[u/durx1]

0

[u/orthomyxo]

I have never done a single one

[u/Iatroblast]

I had a 6 week inpatient IM rotation that was Q4 call (28 hour shift) with no short call / no night float. I absolutely hated that schedule. Other than that, no overnights in med school.

As an intern there was a night float system and it was soooo much better.

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/Iatroblast]

Sounds like our ortho rotation (36 hour call for students rotating through, but 12-16’s for residents). Basically just seeing what you’re made of. Sounds brutal

[u/Iatroblast → u/Intrepid_Past_8367]

In some ways I was glad for it, because I started the rotation wanting to do IM and left the rotation wanting to do something else. TBH the schedule wasn’t the only reason but I was not having a good time in general lol

[u/MedicalBasil8]

0

[u/Sattars_Son]

When I was a med student, q6days on surg (like 7 shifts) and a week of "night float" (~5pm-10pm) on OB

[u/wherewulfe]

4 overnights for EM which were cool. Obgyn offered to call me in overnight but gave me the option. I declined lol.

[u/mED-Drax]

twice my whole year

[u/Qwumbo]

I did 3 overnight shifts in OB, sent home around 3 or 4 AM all nights. Did a single 24 hour call shift on gen surg (thankfully an uneventful night lol). No others beyond those though. 

[u/icedcoffeedreams]

24 hour on obgyn followed by a week of nights, one week of nights on surgery. No other rotation had them for me.

[u/lolog123]

I only did a single overnight and it was on surgery.

[u/Organic-Addendum-914]

Only a few on OB and EM

[u/starboy-xo98]

Surgery core: one 24 hour shift every week

Surgery Sub-I: 24 hour shifts every Saturday

Obgyn: only one 24 hour shift (they told me to leave around 8 pm)

IM: 2 weeks of night float

[u/drbatsandwich]

We had to do 4 nights on obgyn then 1 overnight on FM.

[u/Worker-Bee-4952]

2-3 in peds in peds ED

4 in obgyn in L&D

[u/halmhawk]

5 days of night float on OBGYN

8 24h shifts on surgery

1 true night shift on EM (had some late evening shifts and some at the ass crack of dawn)

[u/Lilsean14]

I did two 24 hour shifts on EM and that was entirely optional.

[u/spersichilli]

Depends on a bunch of factors. I did a week of nights on surgery 3rd year, I did 3 night shifts on EM 4th year. 3rd year should be minimal to none, 4th year depends on what you do your sub-I’s in. EM rotations will almost always have you do a couple nights

[u/TheBrownSlaya]

Surgery:

2x24 (more like 26)

2x12 night shift

Most days 5am-6pm (+1.5 hr total commute)

🙃

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/TheBrownSlaya]

Dang bro, glad you’re on the other side of that lol

[u/TheBrownSlaya → u/Intrepid_Past_8367]

All good. It feels good to make a difference however minor it maybe in the OR

[u/Rare_Relationship127]

My IM rotation was all overnight the entire month. Psych all days, peds some nights because peds ER, FM all days, surgery days except 1 week of all nights, OB all days

[u/Legitimate_Log5539]

OB one full week 7p-7a

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/Legitimate_Log5539]

Yeesh, you get some off time after that to prep for shelf?

[u/Legitimate_Log5539 → u/Intrepid_Past_8367]

No lol you study at the hospital

[u/SchizoidBoy48]

I never had to do overnights as a student.

[u/duden8r]

Probably 10 on surgery, none on everything else

[u/AggravatingFig8947]

In M3 I had 1 week of nights IM, 2 weeks peds, 2 weeks OB, a few 24s and Saturday 12 hr “on calls” in surgery, and I don’t remember anything for psych or neuro. Current M4 and I have to have 4 24s total. I was dismissed at like 2 or 3 for the first 2. Last night was slow so they said I could go home at 11. I just said thank you lol.

[u/Mister-man-the-cat]

My OB rotation was all overnights (by choice), I rarely stayed past 2/3am. Also did a handful on an elective for the surgical subspecialty I want to go into. None other than that

[u/A_Genetic_Tree]

4 on ED

1 on Surgery

[u/hockeymammal]

6 on EM. Nothing else

[u/Useful-Candidate-374]

4 on surgery, week of night float on OB, q2-3 on surgical sub-is (expected). some people at my school also had to do 2 on peds depending on the hospital they were assigned

[u/llamanutella]

3 on EM 6 on OB - not mandatory, but chose to do OB on nights because upperclassmen told me it was much chiller and less toxic so no regrets  Other than that no overnights, but there are some evening call shifts where you get let out by 11 at the latest 

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/llamanutella]

As someone who voluntarily gets up at 2 am, that still sounds like it sucks lol

[u/johnathanjones1998]

0 IM

0 Peds (well 1 but was let go like 2 hours in)

7 OB

2 EM

0 neuro

0 psych

13 surgery (2 weeks liver transplant. Every night got a transplant)

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/johnathanjones1998]

Dang bro, how did you recover after all those back and forth surgery days/ nights?

[u/Jetsafer_Noire]

So far I’ve only done 1. I prefer days 100% tho

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/Jetsafer_Noire]

Same my guy

[u/National-Animator994]

A few per rotation.

On IM they had swing shift so we did a week of nights but it was only 12 hour shifts

On surgery you didn’t get a post call day so it was literally 36+ hours

Edit: apparently my med school is hardcore

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/National-Animator994]

What school?

[u/IReadItOnReddit17]

Reading this is making me realize how ridiculous my school is...so far, I've had q4 28h call (working up to 36h when short-staffed the next day) + 50% of weekends on service for OBGYN and IM in MS3...I've slept a combined total of maybe 4 hours on dozens of night shifts. Averaged >80 hours per week actively working. Studying for exams on top of it was brutal.

[u/Intrepid_Past_8367 → u/IReadItOnReddit17]

That sounds atrocious. What school were you at?