collecting unemployment?

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If you finish a 1st year residency and then take a year off until starting a different specialty, can you collect unemployment in the meanwhile? It seems like you could, and it's an interesting question ...

Thanks

 

[jdh71]

If you finish a 1st year residency and then take a year off until starting a different specialty, can you collect unemployment in the meanwhile? It seems like you could, and it's an interesting question ...

Thanks

Why the F would you do that?

 

[michaelrack]

Don't you have to sign a form saying that you are looking for work to collect unemployment? I don't think you can collect $ for VOLUNTARY unemployment.

 

[Shinken]

If you finish a 1st year residency and then take a year off until starting a different specialty, can you collect unemployment in the meanwhile? It seems like you could, and it's an interesting question ...

Thanks

Typically, you cannot collect unemployment if you quit your job voluntarily or if you're not actively seeking a job. Check with your state for the specific requirements.

If you can prove that you had to quit because you were being harassed or treated unfairly or whatever, you might be able to get unemployment benefits (however, proving this is hard). Voluntarily quitting your job doesn't qualify you.

Also, if you're a doctor it might be hard to prove that you're seeking a job and not being able to find it, since all doctors pretty much have already a bachelor's degree and advanced training, and it will be very difficult to prove that there's nowhere that will give you a job. I'm sure any McDonald's would love to hire a doctor...more mature, more dependable, usually a lack of felony or other convictions, skilled with their hands...proving that you cannot find a job anywhere but are actively seeking will be nearly impossible.

 

[DrMom]

are you in a state where you can work independently with one year residency training? you can bring in good, pretty easy money doing urgent care work without taking on a ton of liability.

 

[Faebinder]

Go apply for a license and moonlight in Wisconsin.. they only require 1 year of internship.

If you are a US grad.. then your options are even more open including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California... etc etc.

 

[3dtp]

If you finish a 1st year residency and then take a year off until starting a different specialty, can you collect unemployment in the meanwhile? It seems like you could, and it's an interesting question ...

Thanks

While this may vary by state, the general rule is that you may not. You are a contracted person and are employed for the term of the contract. If your institution prematurely terminates your contract without good cause (which definition also varies state to state), then you have a shot at it. Most, but not all, states carry an exclusion for a.) voluntary termination, b.) termination for good cause.

The only one who can truely answer this question is your state's unemployment office. If you do try, be aware that your hospital/university will get dinged for the claim (someone's going to pay for your unemployment compensation), face an increase in their FUTA taxes and will likely fight the claim on the basis that once your contract ends, their responsibility ends. Some employers fight all claims as a matter of policy.

Once you do complete your training and are gainfully employed, please do not witch and moan about the fact that your monthly taxes are higher than your present take home pay. They need to be, to support this type of thinking.

...and don't come to Wisconsin! I kind'uv like the place and our taxes are already to high! Try Arkansas.

 

[Doowai]

I'm sure any McDonald's would love to hire a doctor...more mature, more dependable, usually a lack of felony or other convictions, skilled with their hands...proving that you cannot find a job anywhere but are actively seeking will be nearly impossible.

Actually many places like McDonalds would not hire you - its pretty suspicious someone with an MD is applying for work at McDonalds.

Get a Wisconsin license and then you can work in federal facilities nationwide.

 

[dragonfly99]

Agree with the above posts. You can get a job doing research, potentially moonlighting (though less options than you'd have if you had more years of training), etc. If you feel burned out how about getting a nonmedical job. Work at Starbucks and volunteer at a clinic for the uninsured to keep up your medical skills, etc.

 

[CambieMD]

Find a job moonlighting. You can support yourself easily between training. Research jobs can be hard to come by. A few shifts a month should give you enough money to get by on.

Cambie

 

[CambieMD]

Find a job moonlighting. You can support yourself easily between training. Research jobs can be hard to come by. A few shifts a month should give you enough money to get by on.

Cambie

 

[tv12345]

Any advice on where to look for urgent care jobs? I am in a similar situation - completed internship in June 08, and will not start residency in my specialty until July '09. Have been looking online, but have been turned down several times by recruiters who say that I have to finish residency prior to applying. Anybody have any advice as to how else I can find an urgent care job in the meantime?

 

[Burnz]

i wish i could help you guys but don't really have any idea. i just hope you get one.

 

[dragonfly99]

Getting hired through a recruiter, etc. will be exceedingly hard with only an internship. They really like "board certified" and "finished residency". Your best bet would be networking. For example, when I was a resident we got an email from a local urgent care looking for medicine fellows or upper level residents to moonlight. Problem is 1 year of training isn't that much in today's age of medical complexity, and everyone is trying to cover their ass (legally speaking). Will the hospital where you did residency hire you? I know some New York hospitals, and Yale, etc. hire people as "fellows" to take lots of call/shifts in between prelim years and trying to get a different residency. Maimonides in New York City sometimes hires people to do preop H and P's, etc. I have heard. Most of these jobs pay resident wages and work the people pretty hard, though it is a way to have a decent paying job.