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24-48 hours strait? That's BS. You do have 16 hours shifts, but even these are relatives few. Let's not embellish the truth.

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24-28 hrs, but they are common after your first year when they are prohibited. Often 2-3x weekly.

I'm a resident: 30hrs every 3-4 days, is standard for residents in years 2 and above, but only in the more demanding services, otherwise usually 12-16hr days.

Q4 is not a walk in the park but it's better than overnights and at least within micu comes with a resident. My point was why say that you are doing 48 hrs shifts?

No 48hr shifts are allowed in residency (out of residency you're SOL), the limit is either 28 or 30hrs ( IIRC its 28hrs + 2hrs for non-patient work or something similar to that, so most people end up doing 30hrs )

Other limits:

- You are not allowed more than 80hrs per week, that is a hard limit and programs will get in trouble if they ask more of you.

- You are required to take 4 days off every 4 week rolling average ( so 1 day off per week, or 2 days off every 2 weeks, etc )

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