Advice on Relocation after the Match

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Spouse of m4 here who will need to find a new job where ever we end up after the match. Our families are not in any of the possible locations. We also moved to a new location for med school. How will you or your spouse in similar situations handle the question from potential employers?

1.) why are you moving here? you just moved 4 years ago (across the country) and are moving again?

2.) if you disclose that you are married and they ask "what does your spouse do for a living?" do you respond "physician"?

(small) concern of (1) is I appear to be a fugitive or something jumping from location to location. I could answer "because my spouse found a good job/opportunity", but then that leads to question (2).

Answering question (2) can lead the potential employer to think I will only be there for a few years until residency is over. Also, disclosing my spouse is a physician can lower my salary because of society's view that all physicians are filthy rich and we all know that is true, right?

Insight on the above would be much appreciated.

 

[CBMD]

I actually wouldn't worry about it too much. I have moved my wife around the country several times between med school and the military. She has a fairly demanding profeesional career and has managed to get promotions and pay raises after each of our moves. If you have a professional job which it sounds like, they understand the need to move after med school and also know that a large portion of people stay close to their residency location after they finish making you no more of a risk than any other employee. The way to approach it is to be very excited about where you are and make it sound like you've been looking forward to getting there and love the city, ie all things to make it seem like you plan on putting down roots there. If you don;t want to out that you are married... well people move all the time. As far as letting them know your spouse is a physician, my wife had the same concerns and she used it to get better pay, ie you all know I don't have to work with my fancy pants rich doctor husband (yeah right, I wish! 🙂 ), I do it because I love my career and you guys should keep me happy. Amazingly enough this actually works for her. If you don't want to out that you're married to a doctor, just state that your husband and you loved the city/town so much and just decided it was a good time to persue a geography change. If you have friends or any family, even distnatcousins close by, play that up. Long story short, don;t worry too much about this you shouldn't have any problems. Hope this helped.