I got my intern year schedule today (finally! Most everybody else that I’ve talked to have known their schedule since May). And oh, it’s going to be a very busy, crazy year.

I had initially asked for vacation in Sept (for Sam’s wedding), December and May (for Chris’s graduation–I submitted it long before I knew that he would graduate with me) I did get my vacation week for Sam’s wedding… although they have me starting again on Sunday, the 24th, which means, I’d have to fly out on the Saturday, missing the reception. I’ve already written and asked that that be changed.

Then I have a vacation 3 weeks later, and then not another one until May. Seven months without a vacation. So much with the happy little thought of maybe getting to go home for the week prior to Christmas, I was hoping to go to the annual Pleth party, but that will be a no-go.

Worse, those six months are all ward months, all of them, which means 6 days a week, one day off, overnight call every 4th night. I knew this was what I was going to get into, but it seems daunting on paper.

My schedule is as follows:

7/1-7/31 – Medicine Wards, VA Hospital
8/1-8/31 – Neurology
9/1-9/30 – Neuro Intensive Care Unit (Vacation)
10/1-10/31 – Emergency Medicine, Big Hospital* (Vacation)
11/1-11/30 – Medicine Wards, Big Hospital
12/1-12/31 – Neurology
1/1-1/31 – Cardiology Wards, Big Hospital
2/1-2/28 – Medicine Wards, Big Hospital
3/1-3/31 – Medicine Wards, VA Hospital
4/1-4/30 – Neoplastic Consults, VA Hospital
5/1-5/31 – Neurology Consults, Big Hospital (Vacation)
6/1-6/30 – Medicine Wards, Big Hospital
*Hospital name changed slightly for privacy.

Off to pack more. I kinda wish that I had had more time earlier, because I could be having a yard sale and making all kinds of moolah, which since it looks like I was mistaken and I won’t be getting my first pay check until July 31st, I’m definitely starting to feel panicky poor. Why does this all have to be such a pain?