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Erin Allen

Erin Allen

Dr. Éireann Allen is a Paediatric Anaesthesia Fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, with expertise in paediatric pain management and anaesthesia.

Jun 11, 2026

11:23
Are you able to tell us a little bit about what your normal day is like?
11:28
Sure.
11:29
So I went through what my last few months have looked like, um, to give you an idea of, of what we do from day to day.
11:36
So it's, it's a Monday to Friday standard week.
11:40
You probably do about three 24-hour calls per month a- and just have the following day off after that.
11:48
AndUh, the Monday to Friday starts pretty early, so it's definitely a bit of a shakeup to, in comparison to working in the UK.
11:56
So first patient seen by 7:30 and is in the theater environment at 8:00 AM.

19 MINS LATER

31:07
I'm sure there's some listeners that would love to kind of explore a bit more about what that looked like for you and what your experience of it was.

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