Do all doctors have to have clinic duty?
Answer:
K.K.,
The first answer is partly correct. Let's say that you get a job as an oncologist (cancer) at a large hospital. Clinic duty is a little like overtime, expect somewhat like, under time! If you work 90 hours a week, on just oncology, but you are swarmed with cases and you work about 130 a week, your clinic hours will be excused. However, if you aren't doing anything else, you will be given more clinic hours.
Clinic hours are hated by most doctors. Some even make trades to aviod doing them!
Talk soon,
Rob
I think all new doctors in the US have to go through a period of "residency" at a hospital before they can practice privately.
All doctors have clinic duty. The few execptions that I can think of are hospitalists, pathologists, and radiologists.
All surgical doctors have clinic. Where do you think patients come from in order to do surgery? You have to see them in clinic. So clinic is where surgeons see consults from other doctors who referred them to the surgeon. In addition, surgeons need to see their patients in follow-up, which is during clinic hours.
Surgeons typically have 1-2 days of clinic per week and operate the remaining time.
In some large hospitals, surgeons rotate attending duty.
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