Calls consist of visiting our 15-18 bed ward on the assigned weekend which takes about 2 hours on average. Patients must be medically stable to be there (will be on rehab for 3 hours per day 6 days per week), therefore complications are minimal and results in almost no calls from nursing staff. Except for falls/ acute changes in medical status most of the issues can be managed through the phone (ex. expired orders) . Also, if a patient becomes acutely ill we have the rapid response team which will manage patient initially and we get there basically to transfer patient to the appropriate level of care. We follow patients medically on a daily basis (reason for the IM internship) and manage them prior to become complicated, although it happens from time to time .

In summary, we do have calls but I can not compare them to my Internal Medicine calls (all my respect to fellow MDs in other specialties). I am happy to say that we have a pretty good life-style since residency, which significantly improve after graduation taking by example fellow graduates and attending physicians.