Lahey Surgery

Lahey site overview

How many hours do you work/ week?
65-80 hours

What time do you get there in the morning?
4:45-5:15am

What time do you leave?
Always by 6pm. On call ~1 night/week to 8:30pm

How often do you work weekends?
2 weekend (usually) overnights per rotation.

How is the teaching quality (residents and attendings)?
The residents/attendings make the rotation. They love to teach, are always available and an attending teaches every single sample case in the booklet (which will be on your oral exams)

How is the variety of cases you see?
Huge. Everything from live liver transplants to double bypasses to trauma in the ED

How is the work environment?
Responses here

Do you have downtime to study?
no.

How hard/ easy is it to get clinical honors?
They don't give it away but if you work hard and prepare for every OR case you will get honors.

Do they prepare you well for the shelf?
Yes- saw or discussed most things that appeared on the shelf.

Other comments
Intimidating but if you want to see a variety of cases and have excellent teaching both in the OR and on the general hospital floor, this should be the top of your list!