bonehead Unregistered User (5/1/00 8:21:04 pm) Reply Humane schedules Are there certain programs that have reasonably humane call schedules and hours/week? Is the data provided by Freida accurate for these areas? (it's not that I'm lazy, I'm just not a big fan of q3 call) OrthoDoc Administrator (5/1/00 10:10:33 pm) Reply Re: Humane call schedules Call schedules vary significantly for each institution and resident year. I would not bank on the FRIEDA info to be too accurate. You may be every other night for several months on one rotation, then every sixth night on another. I wouldn't look at call schedules when you are just in the stage of applying to programs. You can use it later as a consideration when ranking programs. If you are looking for a nice call schedule, apply to the University of Wisconsin. We took junior call every 8th night and senior call every 4th night. Bob Local user (5/2/00 8:13:33 am) Reply Re: Humane schedules I just finished interviewing, and for the most part orthopaedic call schedules are fairly reasonable across the board. Most programs are at worst q4. Many are considerably better than that. As a general rule, programs that do not take level 1 trauma call are much more humane than those that are a level one trauma center. Many programs will send you to a separate hospital for trauma training for six months during your residency. Thos six months are very difficult in terms of call, but the rest of your four orthopaedic years are very reasonable. Programs that do this are Northwestern, Rush, U of Chicago, Mayo, Cleveland clinic, Johns Hopkins, as well as many others. I would agree with orthodoc, however. Don't use this info during the application process. Use it to rank programs afterward. Also, FREIDA's information is pretty useless. BTW, U of Wisconsin has a very good ortho program (at least that's what I've heard). crazy joe davola Global user (5/10/00 8:02:37 pm) Reply Wake Forest call schedule A rumor I've heard about Wake is that call is almost literally Q3 for the majority of the five years there. This differs slightly from the hours that Wake mentions in their literature (pgy2 = Q4, pgy4,5 = Q3). They claim that the call is home call, even during the pgy2 year. Does anyone have any direct knowledge of Wake's call situation and how it pans out in reality? =================================