Not just EM residents. All residents and fellows routinely work more than 40 hours/week.
Per ACGME guidelines, residents and fellow may work 80 hours/week (averaged over 4 weeks so some weeks can have even higher work hours). So that’s how much they do work.
Some programs (especially neurosurgery and other surgical specialties) notoriously routinely work their residents more than the allowed hours and tell the resident to under-report their actual work hours so not as violate training rules. One academic hospital had their neurosurgery training program shut down for routinely violating work hour restrictions. The 8 residents were replaced by 24 full time mid levels.
Residents and fellows are the workhorses of hospital systems. Their “ free” labor helps keep hospitals afloat.
Residency hours vary by program, by specialty, by seniority within the residency, but even FM outpatient residents work more than 40 hours/week.
No, it’s half that. To find the hourly wage for a medical resident or fellow–divide their salary by 80 hours/week, not 40….
Plus residents do not get differential pay for night, weekend and holiday shifts. Nor do they get overtime pay should they work more than allowed 80 hours/week.