Change of Gap Year Plans

[ebasappa]

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Hey everyone, I wanted your advice. Here's the deal: I recentlly (about 2 months) began training as a scribe, I had to move away and live in another town to do so. However, it is not economically working out. Even if I do find a roommate (other living situations are harder than you think around here) I will be losing money, and my undergraduate loan bills are going to come in.

Now, I've been thinking about leaving this job and living in my hometown to find a part-time job. I also have a hospice volunteer position lined up just in-case and some shadowing opportunities as well. This way, I can save money and start paying off loans instead of digging a deeper financial hole. Only problem is, I wrote in about 9/20 secondaries that I began work as a scribe...

Will Adcoms look down on this if I decide to make this change and update them about it? Should I just grit my teeth and deal with the financial burden? To that note, it is only August...

Thanks!

 

[ebasappa]

No one? :\

 

[ThisCouldBeYou]

Sorry your situation isn't working for you and you didn't plan this better. Of the secondaries you've submitted, oh-well. You can let them know your plans changed when you interview there.

 

[ebasappa]

Sorry your situation isn't working for you and you didn't plan this better. Of the secondaries you've submitted, oh-well. You can let them know your plans changed when you interview there.

Do you think this will be a huge problem? I feel like it would be all the same to them, as long as I do something clinical and keep busy right?

 

[What's Up Doc]

How did you have something meaningful to write about being a scribe on 9 secondaries if you just started training 2 months ago?

 

[ebasappa]

How did you have something meaningful to write about being a scribe on 9 secondaries if you just started training 2 months ago?

I didn't lol, to be honest I focused more on writing about other activities I've had more time to develop and merely mentioned that I BEGAN work a scribe.

 

[mvenus929]

If you have other clinical experiences, you should be fine, just be up front when they ask and explain the financial hardship of living away from home, etc. If you don't have many other experiences, keep the job because you're going to have demonstrate some way that you know what you're getting into.

 

[Osteoth]

Move back home, work at the hospice, pay off your loans. Your scribe work might come up at interviews, but it also might not.

 

[ebasappa]

Move back home, work at the hospice, pay off your loans. Your scribe work might come up at interviews, but it also might not.

I've decided to do it, I'm going to do what makes me happy and not through the eyes of the Adcoms. Plus, now that I think about it, I think it would be a better option for me to interact more directly with patients and learn about how patients feel near death. It is a very important topic to confront that is often avoided in many clinical experiences, and I believe this will give me something much more meaningful to talk about. Plus, I'll have more money and shadowing time to discover different specialties!

Thanks to everyone who commented!