Thread: Time off during clinicals?

No, I'm not a slacker looking for months off like we have now for the Basic Sciences.

I'm just curious.

Is it just going to be a couple weeks off like a regular job? Thanks.

you can take time off during clinicals. if you are part of the january class you'll have 90 weeks to finish 80 weeks. of course sometimes you'll be forced to take a break such as during xmas.

Originally Posted by seagoddess

you can take time off during clinicals. if you are part of the january class you'll have 90 weeks to finish 80 weeks. of course sometimes you'll be forced to take a break such as during xmas.

The school's handbook for clinicals implies that you only get off what the hospital gives you ro what the hospital policy is-that you could not be like (in third year at least I want to take a week of and go skiing! Correct?

well i dont think u can take off say in the middle of a rotation but u can take a leave of absence.

you can take time off between rotations or by approval of your director. i know that bayshore has a breakdown of how many weeks vacation you get if you start by a certain date and want to graduate by a certain date. for my class it was like 23 weeks, but you have to consider mandatory breaks the hospitals make you take, for times around christmas etc... and also time between rotations when you schedule them and also if you want time off to study for step 2.

I've attached the excel sheet bayshore sent on to me. The dates at the top are graduation dates and the side dates are start dates. you just want to be sure you graduate in time so you can match when you need to.

hope this helps...

Originally Posted by drewscal

you can take time off between rotations or by approval of your director. i know that bayshore has a breakdown of how many weeks vacation you get if you start by a certain date and want to graduate by a certain date. for my class it was like 23 weeks, but you have to consider mandatory breaks the hospitals make you take, for times around christmas etc... and also time between rotations when you schedule them and also if you want time off to study for step 2.

I've attached the excel sheet bayshore sent on to me. The dates at the top are graduation dates and the side dates are start dates. you just want to be sure you graduate in time so you can match when you need to.

hope this helps...

Hi,

Sorry does Bridge week mean the number of weeks you have to play with/get off altogether in order to graduate by a certain date?

Thanks!

yes, bridge weeks are time that you can be doing nothing to still graduate by the graduation date listed. that is assuming that you finish all required cores and electives etc... so assuming you fulfill all the requirements, you have that much time, bridge time, to go in between rotations etc... Bridge time gets used up by actively taking time off for study or other reasons, also if the hospital has holiday when you are not required to come in, say two weeks around christmas depending on hospital, this also takes up some of your bridge time. some rotations don't go directly into the next depending where you are. so if you finish one friday, and you don't start the next one the following monday, you will be using some bridge time.

so it's really important to keep track because bayshore won't do that for you. and if you miss the graduation date by a week, then you don't graduate, you may miss your intended match and have to wait around a year.

oh and if you do extra rotations, ie. more than 80 weeks, bayshore charges you extra, i think 400/wk or something like that... nice of them.

whether you get off time during 3rd year is up to the hospital if you are in a clinical center. For example, at st. joes in NJ they schedule you for the whole year (with Fam Med as a 6th rotation) with 2 weeks off at christmas, but at st. barnabas the hospital has 2 weeks break schedule every 12 weeks, so the finish 5 rotations in the same time as 6 at st. joes. To try to schedule a LOA would probably require skiping a rotation altogether since it would throw you out of step to only take a week or 2 off.
if you aren't at a clinical center and go from place to place you can always schedule a week or 2 break between the rotations

the bridge time will really come more into play for 4th year if you are at a clinical center