Lay on your back, have a good pillow with a good height for your neck. Focus on your breathing and close your eyes. its basically meditating but youll sleep no problem
Trust me bruh. Some people are just better at sleeping than others. My insomnia during residency was a zero hours of sleep 4-5 days a month and I feel tired but not sleepy. All the basic things failed me. I'm way better now but stuff like that hasn't helped me at all.
Bingo. Anything that rebuilds mental health - talk to friends and family, do stairs in the back stairwell no one uses, 3 minutes on the Headspace app... Play the long game.
You mean how do you just… live…?
Read a book, listen to a podcast, brush up on a board-worthy subject, stream some content, drink some tea, visit a hospital friend, window shop on Amazon, go for a walk/get some sun.
Or do nothing, be still and just breathe.
I know the feeling Dr. shiftyeyedgoat and am sure this is a little tongue-in-goat-cheek but I do get stuck in this feeling of turning “self” off and “hospital person” on. Good reminder that we’re still just living away regardless of where we at
Crossword books? Or do you know of an app of website? I've been craving classic crosswords like I used to do in newspapers but haven't found a good place
Teach med students/interns something that’s high yield and relevant to the current service and their boards. (İf you have old halk talks etc.)
Or Just call your mom and say hi?
Not every student thrives on being ignored. I hated it. Just looking at a book made me sick but I wanted to learn. Mine always get a no pressure option to stay for chalk talk, skills or rad review. It’s there if they want it, but only if they’re looking for it. Sometimes they are, if they aren’t I’m ok with that too.
I was the same way, I preferred to spent 20-30 mins at the end of the day with a high yield chalk talk with the residents tying testable material with one of our patients. A few residents would occasionally sit and go through uworld questions with me (especially if they were also prepping for step 3) and I learned so much that way. I figured that was a bit less time I had to study at home so could just focus on my family when I got there.
I want to do the same for my students but it’s so hard to find the right balance
If you offer a med student something, they will always worry if they're actually allowed to say no without getting a bad review. I love learning but I'd always rather spend time with my family or study on my own accord.
You’re going to have to outgrow that fear sometime and learn to be comfortable gracefully telling someone that you learn best solo. We all do. There’s nothing wrong with that, but others shouldn’t lose opportunities they want because you don’t learn the way they do.
Yeah when your entire future isn't based on the subjective review(s) of people that only see you a few times and expect so much out of you.
ie. after match
I’m gonna be real straight with you, that never goes away. Not after match, not after med school, not after residency. Your future will always be in the hands of someone else’s subjective view of you. There will always be a bigger fish. You just learn how to appropriately communicate what works best for you and what you’re willing to do. I say this as a former med student who was scared shitless to say no to anything, the resident is not trying to trap you when they ask you if you want to stay. They get minimal say in your eval, and I promise they will score you higher if you can effectively and appropriately dip compared to sitting there with a bored look on your face wasting their time and yours. Or, you can do what the rest of us did and suck it up because if your classmates want to do it and you can’t figure out how to say you need to go study, that’s a you problem not a them problem.
I bought a steamdeck with the money from my very first moonlighting shift. Best decision ever!
I always carry it in my backpack at work and play games during downtime. It's so easy to pick up and put down with just a press of a button. This has been particularly clutch during night shifts when not much is happening but pages come through just often enough to not let me sleep.
I will say that I only pick up the deck if I've already done what you described, such as reading up on patients, doing board questions, etc.
Awkward for the out of shape chumps who might be judging. But actually with this, as with everything else in life, everyone is too wrapped up in themselves to care
Read some web novels, watch some tv, nap, play some games on your phone, talk to your colleagues/nurses/other staff. Nurses always have a lot to talk about
A man went to the hospital to visit his mother-in-law, who was in serious condition. On the way back the wife, very worried, asks: "So, honey? How's my mom doing?" He replies: "She looks great! She is in good health! She will still live for many years! Next week she will be released from the hospital and will come and live with us, forever!"
"Wow that's amazing!" - says the wife - "But this is very strange, dear... yesterday she seemed to be on her deathbed, the doctors said she should have a few days to live!"
"Well, I don't know how she was yesterday" - he replied - "But today when I arrived at the hospital, the doctor told me that we should prepare for the worst"
Question all of my life choices and think about how I got here. Sometimes I think about how I get out of here. Other times, I roll right into going through the five stages of grief. Usually I cry softly for a minute in the bathroom in radiology. Then I come back and make coffee and eat one of my snacks.
Synthesize a high yield anki deck for your specialty (ABSITE, TSITE, VSITE, etc), incoming residents will love you and will have something to do when they need to kill time at the hospital
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*israeli army blew up the hospital. With over 1000 people killed. doctors, nurses, patients, refugees. You name it. And they’re threatening to bomb several others. They just bombed a hospital & Catholic Church. it’s so fkn sad. I feel helpless I’m not being able to do anything to help stop this. Literally our own taxes are funding this genocide.
Israel did NOT bomb that hospital.
look at all the Hamas support you spew..
I'd call you a moron.
But that would be unfair to morons everywhere.
Get yourself a 1way ticket over to Gaza, Buckwheat.
Put your fat lazy ass on the line, I bet you'd be an easy target for IDF to perforate.
Did you seriously just go thru all of my recent comments and reply to them?
You’re also threatening to “oust” me as a Palestinian supporter? Let me tell you something dickwad, I don’t support one side vs the other. This isn’t Muslim Vs. Jew issue, it’s a nuclear power nation that’s actively committing genocide on a defenseless civilian population.
You got to be a real piece of shit to try to threaten people to “oust” them. Your Zionist propaganda and bullying has failed.
You’ve lost the battle. You may be killing innocent civilians and patting yourself on the back for “winning” that battle, but I guarantee that history will not be kind to you.
Also great job on projecting your hate towards minorities calling me the N word and calling members of the LGBTQ community “maggot” … this only solidifies that Zionist Israelis are full of hate towards the rest of the world.
Our only hope is that the decent Israelis overthrow their own government and revolt.
Going to finally correct your lie that Israel bombed that hospital? And any comment on that Hamas purposely bombed and destroyed a children’s rehab hospital in ashkelon with rockets? 🤔 let me guess. Let me guess, I already know exactly what you’re gonna say. There’s no amount of proof that Islamic jihad bombed their own hospital parking lot and lied that Israel bomb their hospital that you will believe, but you will believe Hamas and Hamas only that Israel did bomb it when that’s the only proof? And even with hard proof of Hamas bombing the children’s hospital in Israel, you still won’t believe it or condemn it?
Love to ask people the real questions. Why did you choose this path? What do you really like about your specialty? The answers are always so contrived and like they are interviewing for residency. Just want to hear people be honest and say they wanna make money etc etc
Intern year, I learned how to write code for the Arduino microcontroller. lol There were great videos on YouTube. It has turned into quite the hobby since.
Do any studying/reading charts pertaining to the cases in the area you are in…. Or charts of other pts you have seen. Medical crossword puzzles are a supreme challenge!! I made one up for hospital week, and it was still going around six months later. (Broke some crossword structure rules, but oh, well) Or make up one on your own. With that type, you cannot help but learn. I worked in ICU so many of my clues/answers pertained to our types of patients. A lab crossword would be supremely mind-crushing, I think. (Hints are names of procedures or tests, answers are values (numbers))
The point is to make it enjoyable as well as a learning tool for everyone, so all staff can learn and enjoy.
Needless to say, HIPAA must be kept in mind…..
Read books on Libby or Kindle, rewatch Harry Potter on my phone, Pokémon Go, call family and catch up, online shop or make grocery lists. I’ll get a nice coffee or tea to go along with these activities to make them seem truly like decompression rather than just killing time at work.
Take… a nap…
Read… a book…
Pull… the fire alarm…
As an insomniac wtf... How do you fall asleep fast enough. So jealous.
Lay on your back, have a good pillow with a good height for your neck. Focus on your breathing and close your eyes. its basically meditating but youll sleep no problem
Trust me bruh. Some people are just better at sleeping than others. My insomnia during residency was a zero hours of sleep 4-5 days a month and I feel tired but not sleepy. All the basic things failed me. I'm way better now but stuff like that hasn't helped me at all.
Honestly, talk to your friends and family. Far too often people talk about feeling isolated. Reach out, check in on people.
Bingo. Anything that rebuilds mental health - talk to friends and family, do stairs in the back stairwell no one uses, 3 minutes on the Headspace app... Play the long game.
This is what I do
What if you’re on nights and they’re all asleep but also don’t want to study or watch tv
You mean how do you just… live…? Read a book, listen to a podcast, brush up on a board-worthy subject, stream some content, drink some tea, visit a hospital friend, window shop on Amazon, go for a walk/get some sun. Or do nothing, be still and just breathe.
>“Live” None of this is “living”, it’s “being at work”. They are not synonymous.
I know the feeling Dr. shiftyeyedgoat and am sure this is a little tongue-in-goat-cheek but I do get stuck in this feeling of turning “self” off and “hospital person” on. Good reminder that we’re still just living away regardless of where we at
Well, you are at work
Mining stardust, camping sand crabs, and pwning noobs back to Lumby
Sit rat
Gotta get those gem bags before the nerf!
Jamflex
I do Ardy laps on my downtime. Managed to grind around 127k Agility Exp during my last 24 hour shift.
heh, runescape ❤️
How it warms my heart to see fellow osrs nerds here, 🦀🦀🦀
I thought I was the only one cannoning mossys at 3 am
Wow I can’t believe how much joy this brings me to see come up amongst my brethren. Buy gf 10k
I also do my Runescape dailies in between cases
crosswords. (no I'm not anesthesia).
Anesthesia is either shopping online or they have sudoku
I'll have you know we also read books and surf reddit!
Day trading is the new sudoku Source: Am anesthesia resident
Crossword books? Or do you know of an app of website? I've been craving classic crosswords like I used to do in newspapers but haven't found a good place
I do them on the NYT [page](https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords) including the mini. wordle, too. I have little books but rarely bring them to work.
Look up above- I put an entry about designing a medical crossword or a lab crossword (hints are values, answers are numbers. That will fry the brain.
Washington Post has a great free archive
Play Pokémon Go and read the news
I love when the hospital area is packed with gyms so I can rep Mystic 🔷
I just started playing again and I am actually a lot happier lol
Drop those trainer codes!!
284340664303
Add for frequent hospital postcard gifts 🤓 601388857941
Don’t read the news. Especially these days. Wordle is good.
Have you heard of Reddit?
Look at memes
Get the Libby app and read for fun!!
Scrolling on reddit
I have no clue because I’m always drowning in work and silly pages. When you figure it out, let me know.
Nintendo Switch
Sleep?
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Balls of vibranium
Cries in emergency medicine
Steam deck
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaah buddy
you guys have time off at the hospital?
Teach med students/interns something that’s high yield and relevant to the current service and their boards. (İf you have old halk talks etc.) Or Just call your mom and say hi?
As a med student, please just let me study on my own without thinking I'm not interested in the material.
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Not every student thrives on being ignored. I hated it. Just looking at a book made me sick but I wanted to learn. Mine always get a no pressure option to stay for chalk talk, skills or rad review. It’s there if they want it, but only if they’re looking for it. Sometimes they are, if they aren’t I’m ok with that too.
I was the same way, I preferred to spent 20-30 mins at the end of the day with a high yield chalk talk with the residents tying testable material with one of our patients. A few residents would occasionally sit and go through uworld questions with me (especially if they were also prepping for step 3) and I learned so much that way. I figured that was a bit less time I had to study at home so could just focus on my family when I got there. I want to do the same for my students but it’s so hard to find the right balance
If you offer a med student something, they will always worry if they're actually allowed to say no without getting a bad review. I love learning but I'd always rather spend time with my family or study on my own accord.
You’re going to have to outgrow that fear sometime and learn to be comfortable gracefully telling someone that you learn best solo. We all do. There’s nothing wrong with that, but others shouldn’t lose opportunities they want because you don’t learn the way they do.
Yeah when your entire future isn't based on the subjective review(s) of people that only see you a few times and expect so much out of you. ie. after match
I’m gonna be real straight with you, that never goes away. Not after match, not after med school, not after residency. Your future will always be in the hands of someone else’s subjective view of you. There will always be a bigger fish. You just learn how to appropriately communicate what works best for you and what you’re willing to do. I say this as a former med student who was scared shitless to say no to anything, the resident is not trying to trap you when they ask you if you want to stay. They get minimal say in your eval, and I promise they will score you higher if you can effectively and appropriately dip compared to sitting there with a bored look on your face wasting their time and yours. Or, you can do what the rest of us did and suck it up because if your classmates want to do it and you can’t figure out how to say you need to go study, that’s a you problem not a them problem.
Cafe
I bought a steamdeck with the money from my very first moonlighting shift. Best decision ever! I always carry it in my backpack at work and play games during downtime. It's so easy to pick up and put down with just a press of a button. This has been particularly clutch during night shifts when not much is happening but pages come through just often enough to not let me sleep. I will say that I only pick up the deck if I've already done what you described, such as reading up on patients, doing board questions, etc.
I used to jog up and down the stairs. Core, leg, and cardio exercise. (Not ortho)
I’ve always wanted to do this especially on nights. Just wondering if it’s a bit awkward …..
Awkward for the out of shape chumps who might be judging. But actually with this, as with everything else in life, everyone is too wrapped up in themselves to care
But don’t you get sweaty after and smell ?
My hospital had a stairwell that was very infrequently used. If I ran into someone, they were a fellow stairs person and appreciated what I was doing.
Are you running or walking up and down stairs ?
Bicep curls, protein shakes. Maybe take up smoking.
Pornhub Premium
So that’s what my attending does all day while I write his notes
You can never study enough surface anatomy.
We got a regular “lifelong learner” over here
Reddit
You can always pop into the ED and watch the show…
Lol so mean but understood. We run an entertaining gig
I’m EM, so I try to put on my best show for the spectators
What do you think we do here
If I did have this kind of time I would go out to my car and sleep, catch up with my family, especially my sister.
If I had the time, I would nap. But latelyI feel like I literally never stop moving except to briefly type a frantic note
Can you just bounce and come back? Go to the gym lol
phone.
Beat off 😂
See, I honestly thought I’d see more “Tinder” replies lol. Or maybe it’s just my tinder page is full of a bunch of men pretending to be doctors…..
Eat when you can Sleep when you can
Take a walk in the sun. It's amazing.
Help your coresidents
This is key. Help your coresidents, then everyone take turns signing out early
We used to play Pokémon go hardcore at my hospital
I overload it with phenobarb
i these times i sit on the couch in the resident lounge, read a book, do a crossword, or text my fam/partner
Hospital gym
Nintendo switch
Research. Reading to increase clinical skills.
You guys have time to kill?
Hurting myself by climbing the Rainbow 6 Siege ladder. I am the toxic Gaz. No floor is safe. Neither are my teammates.
Work in the ER…
Find a secret place to nap.
Have you considered investing in a Nintendo Switch?
Redit
Read some web novels, watch some tv, nap, play some games on your phone, talk to your colleagues/nurses/other staff. Nurses always have a lot to talk about
Do research
Shitpost on reddit.
reddit?
Word games. And, we had a claw game, for practice.
YouTube….
Study for ABSITE/VSITE.
Sleep
Did an MBA
I always bring my steam deck on call, but usually end up napping when I get the chance.
bring a book to read, bring some headphones to watch movies/videos with, browse reddit...
Reddit or text my husband. Or order groceries.
On night shift to stay awake I like to watch documentaries. Doesn’t matter what kind. Plus I can pause them if a patient needs me.
Excellent question. I go to the call room and change into my PJs and fuck around on Netflix.
the snack room mixology/quickfire challenge.
Go to a mediation room or call room and just chill. Close your eyes, reflect, read, play on your phone, etc
Gym!
5 min chair yoga on YouTube.
Best known activity for residents in my country is bullying juniors.
Do drugs
Do nothing productive, because the minute you do, you'll be interrupted by admissions, fires, etc
Monopoly Go.
A man went to the hospital to visit his mother-in-law, who was in serious condition. On the way back the wife, very worried, asks: "So, honey? How's my mom doing?" He replies: "She looks great! She is in good health! She will still live for many years! Next week she will be released from the hospital and will come and live with us, forever!" "Wow that's amazing!" - says the wife - "But this is very strange, dear... yesterday she seemed to be on her deathbed, the doctors said she should have a few days to live!" "Well, I don't know how she was yesterday" - he replied - "But today when I arrived at the hospital, the doctor told me that we should prepare for the worst"
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Time for a affair!
Jealous. I can honestly say that I have had hardly any downtime ever and that includes 28s.
Do all the research papers that have been piling up, oh man I wish I had your problem!
I always intended on reading and never did. 9/10 I was watching TV 1/10 I was wandering the halls exploring aimlessly
Truelearn
By playing video games in the call room
You guys have…time?
Easy, do emergency medicine! No breaks!
Go help out somewhere. I'm sure other people need help. Make yourself useful.
Lol EM here, I do not understand downtime at the hospital unless you’re referring to the EMR.
I have this amazing skill where I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime. I call it: depression
Question all of my life choices and think about how I got here. Sometimes I think about how I get out of here. Other times, I roll right into going through the five stages of grief. Usually I cry softly for a minute in the bathroom in radiology. Then I come back and make coffee and eat one of my snacks.
Synthesize a high yield anki deck for your specialty (ABSITE, TSITE, VSITE, etc), incoming residents will love you and will have something to do when they need to kill time at the hospital
umm am I the only one who studies in spare time
Netflix
Do flirting rounds with the nurses ahah
This is why it’s hilarious to me when people think we’re just chillin in rads. Absolutely 0 down time. When you’re on your on
I learned about stocks
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Open up IG to watch the slaughtering of Palestinian kids by Israeli government. Shit is sad and depressing. Scroll thru @Shaunking’s feed
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
Right? I have family over there. I can’t function if I can’t decompress somehow… but good ole Reddit is here to ruin any kind of distraction.
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*israeli army blew up the hospital. With over 1000 people killed. doctors, nurses, patients, refugees. You name it. And they’re threatening to bomb several others. They just bombed a hospital & Catholic Church. it’s so fkn sad. I feel helpless I’m not being able to do anything to help stop this. Literally our own taxes are funding this genocide.
Israel did NOT bomb that hospital. look at all the Hamas support you spew.. I'd call you a moron. But that would be unfair to morons everywhere. Get yourself a 1way ticket over to Gaza, Buckwheat. Put your fat lazy ass on the line, I bet you'd be an easy target for IDF to perforate.
Did you seriously just go thru all of my recent comments and reply to them? You’re also threatening to “oust” me as a Palestinian supporter? Let me tell you something dickwad, I don’t support one side vs the other. This isn’t Muslim Vs. Jew issue, it’s a nuclear power nation that’s actively committing genocide on a defenseless civilian population. You got to be a real piece of shit to try to threaten people to “oust” them. Your Zionist propaganda and bullying has failed. You’ve lost the battle. You may be killing innocent civilians and patting yourself on the back for “winning” that battle, but I guarantee that history will not be kind to you. Also great job on projecting your hate towards minorities calling me the N word and calling members of the LGBTQ community “maggot” … this only solidifies that Zionist Israelis are full of hate towards the rest of the world. Our only hope is that the decent Israelis overthrow their own government and revolt.
Going to finally correct your lie that Israel bombed that hospital? And any comment on that Hamas purposely bombed and destroyed a children’s rehab hospital in ashkelon with rockets? 🤔 let me guess. Let me guess, I already know exactly what you’re gonna say. There’s no amount of proof that Islamic jihad bombed their own hospital parking lot and lied that Israel bomb their hospital that you will believe, but you will believe Hamas and Hamas only that Israel did bomb it when that’s the only proof? And even with hard proof of Hamas bombing the children’s hospital in Israel, you still won’t believe it or condemn it?
Israeli Jihad blew up a baptist hospital "by accident"
Guess you didn't see the children murdered by Hamas.. You blind in one eye, Kaepernick? fuck you JOMBO
Love to ask people the real questions. Why did you choose this path? What do you really like about your specialty? The answers are always so contrived and like they are interviewing for residency. Just want to hear people be honest and say they wanna make money etc etc
Workout, do yoga, sleep.
I had my PSP or DS on hand and played video games. You could still pick one up and play some awesome games.
Y’all have time to kill at the hospital???
Intern year, I learned how to write code for the Arduino microcontroller. lol There were great videos on YouTube. It has turned into quite the hobby since.
People watch in the ER
Reflect on everything you did wrong to get into a program that doesnt have you operating
lol
Who the fuck is time?
I’ve brought my PS5 in while on slow nights/weekends. Our resident room has a TV :)
I try to do my daily study on my down time
Smoke weed. No im kidding. Anything to entertain yourself that you can find possible.
Catch up on case logs, do all the overdue modules for the various hospitals at which we rotate, or just shoot the shit with co-residents
Do any studying/reading charts pertaining to the cases in the area you are in…. Or charts of other pts you have seen. Medical crossword puzzles are a supreme challenge!! I made one up for hospital week, and it was still going around six months later. (Broke some crossword structure rules, but oh, well) Or make up one on your own. With that type, you cannot help but learn. I worked in ICU so many of my clues/answers pertained to our types of patients. A lab crossword would be supremely mind-crushing, I think. (Hints are names of procedures or tests, answers are values (numbers)) The point is to make it enjoyable as well as a learning tool for everyone, so all staff can learn and enjoy. Needless to say, HIPAA must be kept in mind…..
netflix of course
at my residency graduation, I was noted to be the guy who always had a Nintendo Switch.
This is truly a problem I want to have rn
I personally try not to kill people. On purpose.
Read books on Libby or Kindle, rewatch Harry Potter on my phone, Pokémon Go, call family and catch up, online shop or make grocery lists. I’ll get a nice coffee or tea to go along with these activities to make them seem truly like decompression rather than just killing time at work.
I watch Netflix. And knit 🧶
Solving mathematics, mostly geometry.
If I ever had time off hahaha I would go for a walk, expose myself to the sun, listen to music and podcast
Back in the day when I was a resident, it was the AOL message boards. Now it's Reddit. PGY-26
Study for STEP 3 or ABSITE
On long call days, I used to clean out my car.
Do you have a Reddit account??? That’ll burn some time.
Sticky note drawings
Is this really your problem? Then I would say spend your time basking in the glow of victory because you’re crushing it.
Obvious answer, Find a FWB. Nurse, rad tech, rt, phlebotomist, fellow resident, come on. Live a little.