Posted by LJ on February 8, 2012, 2:55 pm, in reply to "Overtime available?"
At my group you can end up picking 10 hours or so of overtime up a week. However, it's gotten more difficult to pick up the extra hours as we add on more staff. Sometimes when you're on a 24 hour call shift you can end up working 20 hours straight and end up with overtime at the end of the week. We have a lot of young energetic anesthetists though all looking to pick up extra shifts so its not easy. We don't have a max on the hours you can pick up. I've found it's easiest to pick up overtime in the summer or around holidays when most of the staff would rather be home with family.