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Individual Surgeon Schedule

What does your clinical work add up to?

Enter your actual schedule — clinic, OR, and call — and see how many work-periods you represent annually, compared to standard benchmarks.

Definitions & Standards

How to set. Acute Care Surgeons average 180–220 work-periods annually depending on specialty mix and institutional structure. For comparison, a banker works approximately 229 days per year (260 calendar days − 20 vacation − 11 federal holidays), all at standard intensity, and does not perform surgery.

Call Intensity Modifiers

How to set. The modifier is the share of a call period that effectively counts as worked. In-house = 1.0 (present all night). For home call: = 0.8 if called >50%, = 0.5 for 25–50%, ≤ 0.2 for <25%.

1 Your Schedule

Describe a typical week and your annual call/vacation commitments. Call intensity reflects where you take overnight coverage: in-house (full 1.0), or home with varying accessibility (0.8, 0.5, or 0.2). Vacation and CME days reduce your annual working weeks proportionally.

Weekday call
Weekend call

2 Your Representative Week

A typical Mon–Fri during your working weeks (excluding vacation/CME). Each half-day is one slot. Rounded to the nearest half-day for clarity.

Representative Week
A representative week — rounded to the nearest half-day for the picture.

3 Your Work-Periods

Annual Work-Periods

Total work-periods / year0
Clinical cFTE (÷ standard)0.0

Call Commitment

Call work-periods / year0
Call as % of total FTE0%

Comparison: The Banker's Year

A banker with 4 weeks vacation and 11 federal holidays off works 229 days per year. Your clinical commitment breaks down as:

Enter your schedule to see the comparison.

Compare to Specialty

Coming soon — specialty benchmarks will show how your actual schedule compares to norms in your field.

Assumptions & Methodology ▼
Call intensity modifiers. In-house call (1.0) is full clinical intensity — you are present and responsible. Home call has varying intensity: high-accessibility home (0.8) where you're expected to respond quickly; moderate home (0.5) where you're on backup; low-accessibility home (0.2) where you're rarely called. The intensity multiplier reflects the actual burden of that call type on your clinical work-period count.

Work-period conversions: Clinic ½-day = 0.5 WP; OR day = 1.0 WP; weekday call night = 1.0 WP (scaled by intensity); weekend day = 2.0 WP (scaled by intensity). Vacation and CME days are subtracted from the annual work-week count, so your clinic and OR commitments are prorated accordingly. Call commitments are counted at full annual volume. Standard Acute Care Surgery definition: 1.0 cFTE = your selected work-periods per year (default 204).