There must be some mistake...

Date: 22 December 2009 07:57:52

This picture has nothing to do with the content of this post, but I just made it for my dinner and it's rather delicious. So my roster for work arrived today. Doctor work... y'know, with a stethoscope and all that. I start in 3 weeks. And it's pretty sweet I must say. I knew it would be nothing like what junior doctors in other countries do, but I must admit I am still surprised... I'm starting in emergency. This would have been a bit of a disaster if I hadn't spent half of my pre-internship rotation in the very same emergency department. I will still probably not like it very much, but I know in advance what happens, where things are, who's good/scary/dangerous and that not all interns like emergency terms. At any rate there are three different shifts that interns are rostered to. The earliest I'll start work is 8am, the latest I'll finish* is 9pm. I have 4 x 10 hour shifts per week. Two Saturday day shifts in the 10 week term, no Sundays. * ie. the latest time I'm rostered to be there. Although leaving on time is a bit of a fantasy in most departments, in emergency it isn't such a zany idea because new people arrive to work...