MD & DO co'21 Residency Panic thread

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libertyyne said:
I’m curious if some programs have relocation expense reimbursements. Some of my previous jobs had that up to a few grand . My wife and I are planning on throwing away/ selling a lot of stuff because it is close to end of life anyway furniture is sagging has rips etc . This is provided we have to move greater than 500 miles away. Living in what is essentially poverty for then past 4 years makes me feel less terrible about doing this considering we did not make any large purchases in something like a decade .
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libertyyne said:
I’m curious if some programs have relocation expense reimbursements. Some of my previous jobs had that up to a few grand . My wife and I are planning on throwing away/ selling a lot of stuff because it is close to end of life anyway furniture is sagging has rips etc . This is provided we have to move greater than 500 miles away. Living in what is essentially poverty for then past 4 years makes me feel less terrible about doing this considering we did not make any large purchases in something like a decade .
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I’ve only seen it with my prelims/TYs. Biggest was 5k.
 
calivianya said:
I’ve done the long distance moves several ways including full service moving companies and U-Haul rentals. The most pleasant by far was Atlas Van Lines. It took a lot of stress out of it. I packed some of the smaller crap myself and let them handle everything else. I also appreciated carrying exactly zero boxes anywhere during the initial pack or when my stuff was getting moved into my new place, and I appreciated that my contribution during the actual transportation process itself was just showing up with the keys.

It’s like half off if you’re a AAA member, which is pretty cheap to join (~$70/year I think). It was a little over $2k for a ~800 mile move with them in 2014 for the contents of a two bedroom apartment (paid for by the company I was going to work for, which was nice). Original quote was near $5k before the AAA discount. For the record, that was not for a full pack. That costs a whole lot more.

I would especially recommend this if you’re getting moving expenses reimbursement from your fancy new job. Max it out, homes. Residency salary sucks for the number of hours you’re putting in and the work you’re going to be doing, so don’t feel bad.
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To save money, we packed and I drove the largest size Penske truck you can rent without a CDL....took it from DFW to CA. It was not a fun experience to drive something that god-awefully big. The move from CA to PA for med school, we went with U-pack. U-pack drops off a trailer and you load it yourself....the charge is based on the volume of the trailer you fill. Then a driver picks up the trailer and delivers it to your destination. We'll probably go with this company again in a couple of months.
 
YOOOOOOO LETS GO!!! GET HYPED EVERYONE! YA'LL EARNED THIS!

For real, everyone enjoy today regardless of the outcomes. It will all work out in the end. Incredibly thankful for this community for all the help over the last ~5 years. SDN has been the unsung hero in my journey.
 
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libertyyne said:
Also do we just get an email today around noon ? Or do programs tend to call the matches? I hope I don’t have to FaceTime or something like that .
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The email will probably come about 5 minutes before it says it's supposed to. It will have all your match results in it.

Most people are contacted by their new program some time later in the day.
 
sunshinefl said:
Omg I just got a call with an area code from my core site and my heart sunk.

turned out it was CVS Pharmacy automated call.
😒
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I'll do you one better. I just now got an email from one of the programs I interviewed at. Thanking me for considering their residency program and that they're eagerly awaiting Match Day results and asking me to complete a brief and anonymous recruitment survey.
-messed with my head there for a second until I had it fully opened.
 
Oligodinero said:
I'll do you one better. I just now got an email from one of the programs I interviewed at. Thanking me for considering their residency program and that they're eagerly awaiting Match Day results and asking me to complete a brief and anonymous recruitment survey.
-messed with my head there for a second until I had it fully opened.
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Hah, i got one of those from my number 1 that i promptly trashed

but yes, the timing could have been way better!
 
Oligodinero said:
I'll do you one better. I just now got an email from one of the programs I interviewed at. Thanking me for considering their residency program and that they're eagerly awaiting Match Day results and asking me to complete a brief and anonymous recruitment survey.
-messed with my head there for a second until I had it fully opened.
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Lol that is cruel
 
I can't help but step back and think about how insane this entire process is.

From applications to interviews to rank lists and getting ghosted by programs. To the costs and the uncertainty, to the match week and the email notifications that MAY come 5 minutes earlier. And to top it all off, programs know the results already, the schools know the results. The most important people though... us... are still waiting. And, our entire lives are chilling, just hanging in the balance. And our significant others, are families, are all waiting too.

This entire process is WHACKY. You couldn't even make this up.
 
Espressso said:
I can't help but step back and think about how insane this entire process is.

From applications to interviews to rank lists and getting ghosted by programs. To the costs and the uncertainty, to the match week and the email notifications that MAY come 5 minutes earlier. And to top it all off, programs know the results already, the schools know the results. The most important people though... us... are still waiting. And, our entire lives are chilling, just hanging in the balance. And our significant others, are families, are all waiting too.

This entire process is WHACKY. You couldn't even make this up.
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There’s legit no reason this couldn’t be released at like 5am so we can just wake up and read the results.
 
Ho0v-man said:
There’s legit no reason this couldn’t be released at like 5am so we can just wake up and read the results.
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Works that way for people in Hawai'i... well 6 am at least. Though, I doubt being there calms the nerves...

...that's what the Mai Tais are for.
 
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Espressso said:
I can't help but step back and think about how insane this entire process is.

From applications to interviews to rank lists and getting ghosted by programs. To the costs and the uncertainty, to the match week and the email notifications that MAY come 5 minutes earlier. And to top it all off, programs know the results already, the schools know the results. The most important people though... us... are still waiting. And, our entire lives are chilling, just hanging in the balance. And our significant others, are families, are all waiting too.

This entire process is WHACKY. You couldn't even make this up.
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Step 3 results come in at midnight. I got mine this week and can confirm it's true.
 
Tachycardia is getting bad .
If you match your first choice or last you will still be a physician at the end of the day.
congrats SDN fam our neurosis brought us and kept us together. But it definitely has been rewarding to watch all of us grow and figure out what we wanted to do at the end of the day . You guys provided me with the real advice about not only how to do pass medical school , but how to do well . Every program is going to be lucky to have this crew .

and I feel like I know some of you better than most of my classmates . Even though we have never met irl.
And praise be to anki , my one true savior .
 
Frogger27 said:
YOOOOOOO LETS GO!!! GET HYPED EVERYONE! YA'LL EARNED THIS!

For real, everyone enjoy today regardless of the outcomes. It will all work out in the end. Incredibly thankful for this community for all the help over the last ~5 years. SDN has been the unsung hero in my journey.
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You're absolutely right. I joined even before I got accepted to med school!

And look where we all are now!

It is an amazing and impressive achievement. Let us be thankful and celebrate with the ones we love!!!!
 
SurfingDoctor said:
I loved it for the pockets and the warmth it provided at 2:30 am as you ponder your life choices whilst you write another cream for some sort of rash that the night shift nurse discovered on their one assessment of the patient. Trust me, writing pointless orders is much better warm than freezing your butt off when your endogenous cortisol hits rock bottom at the wee hours of the morning.
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I learned as an intern that the way to stop those annoying 2:30 am phone calls about silly things is to give whomever calls you a task to do. Preferable an onerous task.
 
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