Evening and weekend on-call responsibilities begin in the fall of the first year. The first year residents take introductory call evenings and weekend days alongside a more senior resident or a member ...

Michael E. DeBakey, MD, the late legendary heart surgeon, was known for making his residents and fellows sleep in the cardiac ICU at Houston Methodist Hospital when they had patients on the unit.

Anesthesiologists are on call an average of 58 days per year, according to a report from Physician Side Gigs, an online community of more than 195,000 physicians. 1. Of those surveyed, 91% of ...