On-call for Medical Students?

[yazoo]

Thanks for letting me know. Is it during your third year when night shifts are introduced to your schedule/timetable?

Depends. Out of hours work is usually doable for most who ask. But you spend most of your days on the wards/in clinics/with a GP in clinical years. And you generally need your evenings to do book work, extra-currics and have a social life. That's why med students don't spend too much time doing OOH work.

[yazoo]

first off why are you messaging some whos comment was made some else. I live in brampton cause thats where my job is & I need to stay close to my job. But any time of the day call me up & you'll get rammed by a stock pontiac g8.

Then let me explain if you are obtuse as well as puerile.

I prefer not to read antisocial tirades and tantrums. This is a public forum. If you post something I disagree with, I am entitled to post.

[rjm]

Given the fact that we cant even understand what 0121brumie is saying because s/he doesnt know how to write English (possibly a skill s/he should practice before applying to medical school), they are probably best ignored.

[cj09]

If you're going to be rude though, I hope you dont get a place at med school though, then you can just continue to dream forever.

You can't answer a question without making it about you. You get annoyed when someone can't agree with you. You call me desperate. Then you're now wishing i will not get a place at med school.

And you're calling ME rude? Riiiiight!

[cj09]

Depends. Out of hours work is usually doable for most who ask. But you spend most of your days on the wards/in clinics/with a GP in clinical years. And you generally need your evenings to do book work, extra-currics and have a social life. That's why med students don't spend too much time doing OOH work.

Cool. Thanks so much for all your help. I really appreciate it. It's good to know med students get more time to do their own thing nowadays. Has it always been like this? Or were med students expected to do more before?

[rjm]

You can't answer a question without making it about you. You get annoyed when someone can't agree with you. You call me desperate. Then you're now wishing i will not get a place at med school.

And you're calling ME rude? Riiiiight!

I am not annoyed with you at all. You were the one that was rude. I am quite capable of answering a question without making it about me, however, I have experience which you dont, and I was trying to enlighten you that nights are really not that exciting. Just keep dreaming cj!

Now I am going to go and do my night shift, and quite frankly if I could let you do it, I would...except then the patients might die.

[cj09]

But why bother though? That's what i'm getting at. You can't make people see things the way you do. Fine you have the experience but that doesn't mean that when someone asks a question, you call them "desperate" for wanting to experience something they haven't before. All i basically said was you should just leave people to it. If they want to experience what it's like, then let them! All you should do is answer their question without making it about YOU and what YOU think is best for them. PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT.

Sorry if you thought i was being rude. And sorry if what i am about to say may sound distasteful to you but it's amazing how immature you are to wish someone to keep dreaming about med school just because they annoyed you. It's amazing to think you are a doctor.

I am actually hoping that you're not a doctor; that you're just making it up cos i fear for the future of medicine who have "doctors" like you, who say exceptionally immature things like: Now I am going to go and do my night shift, and quite frankly if I could let you do it, I would...except then the patients might die.

What the....

[Clarkey]

No compulsory oncalls in paeds now, or if they are they dont have to get signed off/ noone is policing is and therefore does not appear that anyone does them!

Thats a shame, but then I guess those that want to learn will do the extra. Coming in on saturdays meant I got to do stuff without fighitng to see patients, and I got more out of it. I plan on coming up to paeds after xmas to try and get some extra experience as it's something I want to go into and I want to try and learn some more.

[yazoo]

Given the fact that we cant even understand what 0121brumie is saying because s/he doesnt know how to write English (possibly a skill s/he should practice before applying to medical school), they are probably best ignored.

What changed your mind? You initially responded. The language didn't change.

Personally, I disagree. I think is something is wrong you should not ignore it.

[rjm]

Absolutely cj, I made it all up, I am infact a shop assistant but I dream of a better life as a doctor, one where I earn lots of money and get to go to work at night time as well as at the weekend. You caught me out, well done, you are so clever, I am sure your excellent skills as a sleuth will make you an excellent doctor, even if you do take things completely on face value. All the best with your future career.