How many hours per year do you work?

[jhwkr542]

It's a little different for me for now pre-partner based on # weeks off.  Currently, 7:30-4:30x4.5 days a week.  7 weeks vacation + about 1 week for holidays (1 for Thanksgiving, 1 Christmas, 1 New Year's, 1 Labor Day, 1 Memorial Day, 1 4th of July unless I have vacation during those weeks).  Partners get 10 weeks.

Pre-partner: 1782

Partner: 1660

Call is negligible since I haven't been called once while on call since I've started.

[Noah]

Wow. Makes be feel grateful for emergency medicine. Many groups I interviewed with had a full time floor of 1200 hours a year. I am signed up for 1500 per year but find I still have a lot of extra time and will likely work a bit more to get to the 1700-1800 level.

[Otodoc]

i get so jealous sometimes reading these forums.  i calculated 2300 hours per year.  q2 call.  2 weeks vacation, 1 week of holidays.

 

[Antares]

Noon to 8 four days a week, on average 44 weeks a year figuring in vacation, holidays, snow days like yesterday, getting done early sometimes = 1408 hours per year. Let's add an hour a week when I'm dealing with stuff outside the office, so total is 1452 per year.

[smartmoneymd]

I definitely get jealous on these forums. I thought I was doing well, but I'm definitely on the higher end of things: >2300 hrs. As I get sucked into management and administration, the number of unpaid hours add up even more. Would definitely consider trying to cut down to a 4-day workweek.

[wideopenspaces]

Right now I'm doing 7 hours/week. But someday I'll probably go back to my 0.75 fte schedule: 23 patient hours/week with 8 weeks off a year. No weekends, no real call. 1012 hours a year. It's really the perfect amount of work for me.

[The White Coat Investor]

Otodoc wrote:

i get so jealous sometimes reading these forums.  i calculated 2300 hours per year.  q2 call.  2 weeks vacation, 1 week of holidays.

 

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Why would you choose that life? Are you in some untenable financial or personal situation that forces you to do more call and have less time off than any resident these days does? You're in control here. You are the one with the valuable skills wanted all over the country. When I was interviewing for jobs at the end of my military time there were two groups I was interested in, but I became uninterested due to what I saw as deals I didn't have to put up with:

# 1 A group in Boise that would require me to commute to Sun Valley to do a few shifts a month

# 2 A group in Reno that wanted me to work all nights for 5 years because that was what they had all done

I said "Thanks but no thanks" and didn't pursue either further.

If I were in your shoes and someone said "Q2 Call" I would have said "Thanks but no thanks."

If I were in your shoes and someone said "2 weeks vacation" I would have said "Thanks but no thanks."

I am super curious why you did not and by staying, basically continue to not say that.

[Anesthesia84]

FIREshrink wrote:

Include any call where you are actually working, as opposed to just carrying a live pager. So if you are called in for a procedure or spend hours on the phone while on call, count that – but don’t count the 15 hours you were at home sleeping and playing basketball with your kids just because you had a pager on.

 

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I feel like this is tricky because it varies so much between specialties. We have a first call doc and second call doc at all times in our anesthesia group. The first call person usually stays in house (even if there are no OR cases, there is usually an epidural running on OB or something). The second call person usually is at home, but it's a 20 minute call back and you're on the hook for OB emergencies if the first call person is in the OR with another case. That means ready in the OR to go 20 minutes from when you get paged.

So, carrying that pager is no fun even if you go 24 hours without actually being called. I'm just waiting for the stat c/s page and can't do anything with my kids solo (have to take another adult along in case I get called), have to be ready to leave grocery shopping in the middle of the store, can't go for a run from my house because it would take too long to run back if I get paged..... This is really different than my dad's call as a pedi subspecialist - he can be hiking in the mountains as long as he has pager service and can call the hospital back and be in within a couple hours.

Anyways, just wanted to point that out. It's mostly a moot point for my hours since I took the paycut and just work 4 days per week . Much happier this way!

[RDB]

I am a dentist. I work 31 hours a week, about 48 weeks a year. So, about 1,488 hours per year.

[Zaphod]

2 days of 9-5 clinic per wk*50 wks=800 hours

1 f/u day per month 6*12= 72h

1.5 sx d/wk*50wk=450h

Total=1322

[smartmoneymd]

Zaphod wrote:

2 days of 9-5 clinic per wk*50 wks=800 hours

1 f/u day per month 6*12= 72h

1.5 sx d/wk*50wk=450h

Total=1322

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Nice number of hours on surgery days. Running your own business really sounds like it can give you more flexibility than being employed. :-)

[Zaphod]

smartmoneymd wrote:

Zaphod wrote:

2 days of 9-5 clinic per wk*50 wks=800 hours

1 f/u day per month 6*12= 72h

1.5 sx d/wk*50wk=450h

Total=1322

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Nice number of hours on surgery days. Running your own business really sounds like it can give you more flexibility than being employed.

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Really just good margin on average for my cases. Those hours were actual from my spreadsheet, actually it was just scheduled hours, my actual operative time was like 376 hours. Not bad.

[ticker]

Otodoc wrote:

i get so jealous sometimes reading these forums.  i calculated 2300 hours per year.  q2 call.  2 weeks vacation, 1 week of holidays.

 

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You could always spend your next week of vacation interviewing for a different job.  I did 7 interviews out of training and found my current job (a little better pay, ~400 fewer hours/year of work, and less call than the average offer) on my last interview.

My number is ~1600.

[conniebird]

Derm ~ 1500 hours. Tough to estimate tho since I do hospital stuff and sometimes it's just 1 hr there or 4 hrs there. I also teach residents/have required meetings and lectures that I didn't really count in that figure. This also assumes I take all my vacation + CME time etc, which I usually don't.

[SomeRandomGuyOnline]

I work about 12-14 shifts a month which equates to 1300-1400 hours a year.