Emergency Medicine?

Question

How many years is the residency for an ER doctor?not including the one intern year. and how many hours do they work on average/week? thanks, anything else you guys got about it would be helpful.

Answer 1

Emergency medicine is a three year residency.

Average work hours (for all programs self-reporting their hours to the AMA FREIDA database) is 54.5 for the first year. Like stated above, this is highly variable from place to place (with theoretically no more than 80 hrs per week anywhere).

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Answer 2

Yeah, ER residency inc 'internship' is 3 years, just like "Internal Medicine". There are some programs that have 4 years training period though!. You can opt to do more by specializing afterwords. Hours can vary depending on where you end up doing residency but, generally as mentioned before, max is 80 hrs/ week.
Most residency training programs have 'shifts' these days of 12 hours per day.....ex 7am-7pm or 7pm-7am. The worst part about these 'shifts' is that you get tossed around from day to night.....which s**ks!

Answer 3

Emergency Medicine is a 3 year (total) post-graduate program. On average most residents are going to work approximately 80hours/week. Most non-resident ER doctors work 4 12 hours shift per week. This is a relatively new trend towards shift work in ERs.

Answer 4

Usually a couple of years, and they work somewhere in the 60+ hours range... but it depends on where you are. There can be a lot of variety between programs, and in what you learn during them. If you can hook a residency at, say, Bellevue in New York City, you'll see more stuff in one shift than you might in a week in someplace like Charleston, SC.

Good luck... we always need more good ER docs!

Answer 5

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