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How to thrive during residency -Surprise shifts and resiliency

Getting pulled to cover someone can feel like THE WORST thing in the world, but after getting pulled to cover a 24 hour shift with 20 new patients before vacation and then getting pulled again after vacation, here is a positive twist I learned about how to approach surprise shifts. 

Let these surprise shifts and coverage allow you to become more resilient and you might learn something of yourself. These can be the more exhilarating parts of medicine that doctors expound upon no end. But there are the opportunity costs of participating in this exclusive world of second-by-second high intensity decision making medicine. You may decide that this isn’t for you.  

If it is defining how much you are willing to pay (in experiences, time, money, relationships) for these experiences can be achieved rapidly through the roughest days in medicine.

After all, there are so many things a person can do in a 24 hour period. How do would you ideally want to split up your 24 hours? 

Surprise shifts might reinforce what really is important to you!