This is Will's schedule right now (remember, this is summer, so during the school year, he also takes ~15 credits of school and has bunches of homework as well).Research Lab: ~6-8 hrs/week
Volunteer at the ICU: ~4 hrs/week
Volunteer Medical Interpreting: ~ 4 hrs/week
Work: ~40 hrs/week
Travel for all of the above: ~ 7-8 hrs/week
Church calling (Primary teacher): ~ 3-4 hrs/week
We're already at about 68 hours for one week. Since there's only 168 hours in a week, and you take out the 68 he's using up already, then approx 48 for sleep (if he can actually get 7 hours of sleep a night), that leaves 52 hours. Sounds like a lot, doesn't it.
Here's what else he has on his plate.
Doctor Shadowing: ~ 4-8 hrs/week
Med School app: ~ 5-10 hrs/week
Now we're down to about 34 hours a week left for free time. Estimate about 1 hour a day for getting ready, and about 1 1/2 hours a day eating (if he can make time for 3 meals), and we're down to 17 1/2 hours of "free time." Most of that happens on Sunday. Granted, 3 hours for church, and usually meals take up more time, so maybe 15 hours of free time in a week. And don't get me started about the time requirements of going through fertility treatment... even less sleep then.
Granted, during the school year, he's probably in class for about 15-20 hours a week, plus about the same amount of homework. Now we're in the red on free time. What happens then? Less sleep. His average during the school year is between 3 and 4 hours a night.
Here's the great thing about med school...
- You can't have a job.
- You don't have to put in crazy numbers of hours of volunteering, doctor shadowing, extracurricular activities (those are a requirement for the applications, 20 hrs a week is the preferred), and research.
- You do spend a lot of time at school, but when you come home, you don't have to go to work.
Overall, when it comes to the idea of med school, I say, "Bring it on!" I don't know that anything could be busier than trying to get into med school.
9 comments:
Holy crap! Scary math when you start adding up the hours. Poor Will. Poor you!
So how in the world do people in medical school have time for all those sultry storylines and affairs like they show on TV?
Which Mc Doctor will he be?
But hey- check out his new haircut!!! (I think you should post a picture of his recent haircut)
:)
But hey- check out his new haircut!!! (I think you should post a picture of his recent haircut)
:)
In Will's free time..(ha)..he needs to watch "HOPKINS" which is on at 10 on Thursday nights on ABC. It is a real doctor show.....documentary. Fascinating!
Wow, crazy schedule! I don't know how you guys do it. Good luck with med school apps.
I don't think it's really even medical school that's crazy. It's your R1 and R2 years. Like, LIVE at the hospital, although supposedly there are some changes in the law to restrict this.
Haha That's the same thing that people used to tell me when Lane was applying to law school. As if he wasn't working 14 hour days and serving as eq president. Starting law school was great because suddenly I got to see him all the time. I used to laugh at the second and third year wives that tried to make me feel better about my husband being a first year by telling me that it would get better. All I could think was, he can be home more than this? Tell Will good luck with applications
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