Hi guys!
I've been getting a ton of questions on exactly how much sleep I get so today I wanted to
explain that and divide it up by all the rotations I've been thru and really talk about how much
sleep I've been getting.
So if you guys don't know I've been wearing this Withings watch for a little less than
two years and I've talked about this watch before but the reason why I like it so much
is because it looks like a regular watch but it actually tracks your activity throughout
the day and as well as your sleep at night.
So I've sort of gathered all the data from the past two years or so and kind of graphed
everything out so that I can visually look at how much sleep I'm getting.
It's actually very interesting.
So let's get started.
The first graph is here is the entire second year of medical school.
You can see my average sleep is about 7 and a half hours and that's something I've been
preaching a lot like I try to get 7 to 8 hours of sleep.
That's my goal in life--pretty much.
And you guys can see there a little bit of standard deviation--1.6 hours for the most
part my sleep can range from between 6 and 8 hours.
I'd say that's pretty good.
Really, the nice thing about the first two years of medical school is your flexibility
in terms of scheduling so you get to kind of make your own schedule, listen to the lectures
on your own time, and if you're really sleep deprived then you get to sleep in a little
bit or you can go to sleep earlier and it doesn't really matter.
You're not really technically required to be at school for the most part.
So moving on to Step 1 studying.
If you guys don't know, Step 1 is a board exam for people in medical school.
It's part one of three board exams that you have to take in order to become a licensed
MD.
You take Step 1 after second year medical school, Step 2 during your 4th year, and Step
3 sometime during your residency, first year.
So during Step 1 studying, you can see my average was a little less than second year
of medical school.
My average is 7.1 hours but I have a narrower--smaller standard deviation of 1.2 hours.
I didn't wanna sacrifice any sleep during Step 1 time because sleep is really important
in learning and forming memories so I wanted to keep it as regular and as routine as possible.
Moving on to third year of medical school, when everything changes and you're actually
required to be at the hospital everyday.
Psychiatry was my first rotation.
It looks like I didn't get that much sleep during psych.
I have 6.4 hours average and 1.2 standard deviation.
I think the reason why I have a little less sleep in psychiatry even though it's considered
a less rigorous rotation is because it was my first rotation of third year.
So I was probably nervous and trying to get up early so I can look nice for the hospital
and everything.
That's probably why I have a little less sleep than I should have for psych rotation--I think.
Also it was summer time, this was during July and August, so I was probably during stuff
at night with friends, enjoying my summer.
I think that's why I had a little less sleep at 6.4 hours.
Next rotation I had was pediatrics rotation, for that rotation, I remember my watch battery
ran out and I just didn't have time to buy the new battery or I kept on forgetting so
I don't have any data from peds rotations--which sucks cause in peds I thought we had a lot
of variability inpatient time, office time so I wanted to see what my sleep would look
like but unfortunately, I don't have that data.
Next rotation I had is ob-gyn.
And you can see that my average sleep was about 6.7 hours with 2.0 standard deviation.
You can see beginning of the rotation, I'm staying pretty much consistent but then towards
the end, there's a lot of ups and downs and a lot of dips, probably because I was spending
a little more time studying, some of these may have been an error of my watch, it says
two nights I got like 2 hours of sleep.
That's probably not true.
But I do remember being very tired during ob-gyn and taking some naps so I think that
threw off my sleep schedule a little bit.
The next rotation was Family Medicine.
So for family medicine, it looks like I got a lot of sleep, at an average of 7.1 hours
with 1.5 hours of standard deviation.
It looks like there is a clear pattern going on where beginning of the rotation, I have
a very consistent sleep schedule and then towards the end it kinda dips up and down
a lot.
Also family medicine, if you guys remember, is the month I did my vlogmas.
So I think if I didn't do vlogmas, I probably would have gotten a little more sleep but
because I was doing filming, editing and trying to upload on time I think Iost a little bit
of sleep there.
So next is rotation is surgery, there is a ton of ups and downs.
So average hours of 6.4 and 1.9 hours of standard deviation.
You guys can see, there's a ton of ups and downs during surgery--that's because I think
I was waking up at like 4:45am... or trying to get to hospital by 4:45am on most days
on surgery.
But there were days, like on weekends when I didn't have to go in and I would just sleep
forever.
I really wanted to make up that sleep debt whether that's real or not, so I think that's
why there's so many ups and downs.
I don't see that similar pattern of sleeping consistently beginning of the rotation and
then not sleeping as much towards the end because I think throughout I was just studying
and trying to stay on top of things and waking up early so I think that's why it's so erratic
during this rotation.
Next and finally, it's not completely done but it's my internal medicine rotation.
This rotation, I have the least amount of sleep so far.
I don't quite understand why cause I go into the hospital a little later than surgery but
it looks like I've been getting an average of 6.2 hours and 1.7 hours of standard deviation.
It looks like there's also a lot of ups and downs in internal medicine.
My guess for why the average is so low is because for internal medicine.
I've been going into the hospital 6 days a week, whereas most of my other rotation it's
5 days a week.
So almost everything that I've done so far, I'd only go in on Monday through Friday and
occasionally maybe a weekend shift but for internal medicine, I've been consistently
going in every Saturday as well so I think that's why the average is a little low.
There are definitely days when I have a lot of sleep and I've taken couple naps in internal
medicine.
The way the software works for my watch is it will add in all the naps as part of your
sleep.
I think that's why I have all these upward bumps in internal medicine.
Those are naps!
So that's all the data I have so far on how much sleep I'm getting in med school.
I'll try to do an update video in the future when I'm down with med school and I wanna
make two disclaimers before I end the video.
Number 1 is that this watch measures sleep by how much you're moving in your sleep so
it kind of calculates based on light sleep and deep sleep.
So it's not a perfect way to measure how much sleep you're getting but over a long period
of time it gives you a relative idea of how much sleep you're getting.
Disclaimer number 2 is that this video is not really meant to show you how much sleep
you'd be getting in each of these rotation or specialties, these are my personal experience,
there's a lot of personal stuff going on like vlogmas and how much I was going out, or how
much I was studying at night, so it's not really an objective view of how much sleep
YOU will be getting in these rotation or if you were to go into these specialties.
So with that, I'm gonna end the video here.
If you guys have any questions, about my watch, or how much sleep I'm getting or any details,
please let me know in the comment section and I'll try to answer them if I can.
Thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you guys in the next video.
Byeee!