doing deals with residencies !!!

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I'd appreciate any advice here, I'm an Irish trained family physician. ECFMG certified and ready to apply for a residency, but I was hoping to just do PGY 2 and PGY 3, I only need 2 years of ACGME training to be licensed as already board certified for family med in USA (reciprocal arrangement).

All the PGY 2 openings for 2013 say I need PGY 1 training except for 1 of them which is now filled.

Does anyone know if it is possible to do deals though? Are programs willing to take people who would work for free ? Would they create an extra residency post if I would work for free or even pay the residency ?

Is it acceptable to ring program directors and speak with them about this ?

Pleaseeee help , I really need to get to US by july 2013 and commence PGY 2

 

[gutonc]

I'd appreciate any advice here, I'm an Irish trained family physician. ECFMG certified and ready to apply for a residency, but I was hoping to just do PGY 2 and PGY 3, I only need 2 years of ACGME training to be licensed as already board certified for family med in USA (reciprocal arrangement).

All the PGY 2 openings for 2013 say I need PGY 1 training except for 1 of them which is now filled.

And now you've discovered the difference between board certification and licensing. while ABFM might be comfortable with your training abroad, clearly the individual states aren't. And while there are a few states that will give an IMG a license with only one year of PG training, the remainder are split more or less evenly (I'm too lazy to count them all) between requiring 2 and 3 years of PG training, so be sure you're comfortable with only being able to practice in half of the US after only 2 years of PG training.

Does anyone know if it is possible to do deals though? Are programs willing to take people who would work for free ? Would they create an extra residency post if I would work for free or even pay the residency ?

Short answer? No. Long answer? NOOOOOOOOOO.

Is it acceptable to ring program directors and speak with them about this ?

Sure, why not?

Pleaseeee help , I really need to get to US by july 2013 and commence PGY 2

It's a bit late for that now. Although your luck is likely to get better in August and September as people bail out of spots for one reason or another.

Why didn't you just go into the Match and discuss it with PDs at the time of interview? This strikes me as a much more straightforward path than the one you've chosen.

But good luck.