During the residency to become an ER doctor, are you working normal hours, or are you on call?

Question

Would you be working, shifts, or are you on call, and have to go to work at any given time?

Answer 1

Each hospital has their own policy.  Most hospitals have rotating shifts which are often 12 hour shifts.

Answer 2

Residency in ER is three years long and consists of different sites or 'rotations' each month. Many months are spent in the hospital on inpatient services like Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, and OB/GYN. When you are on these services you typically take call where every 4 or 5 th day you stay all night and do all of the admissions.

The rest of the 'rotations' are usually a month of ER. Most ER's will have you work 16-20 shifts that are 12 hours each, a mix of days and nights.

So the simple answer its both- shift work and 'on-call' work

Answer 3

an ER doctor never works "normal" hours.