GI fellowship Swap!!

[cabergoline2]

Posting this on Behalf of 2 separate friends!

2 current PGY4 GI fellows both based in Midwest area are interested in a swap for family reasons and logistic difficulties in maintaining relationships because of covid-19 crisis-

Program description : Both are Tertiary care academic medical center / main hospitals of a medical schools, are liver transplant centers . The fellows are happy with the program. Good US news rankings (top 30 for one /top 20-40 for other). GI program tier : mid to upper mid tier..only reason for wanting to swap is family issues...

Desired Location : First person : wants to do down south ,preferably south east.. south central acceptable..
Second person Northeast/midatlantic : perferably in DC/Baltimore/Virginia area or something of a 2-3 hour drivable distance.

There does not seem to be much posted in residency swap... PM me if anyone is interested to come to midwest from those regions...

neither have a criteria for tier of program as long as geographic preferences are met.

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[Scope guy]

I think it would be helpful if you ask your friends to post what sort of fellowship program in southeast or east coast mimicks their current fellowship. Eg - first person could say Emory or Augusta or UF Jacksonville. It will give an idea to those who might be interested to know the program caliber that they can get into.

 

[Scope guy]

And it might be easy to move to a community based fellowship like Aventura hospital or low tier program like Howard when moving. Ppl there might be happy to upgrade to a better program

 

[ChessMaster3000]

And it might be easy to move to a community based fellowship like Aventura hospital or low tier program like Howard when moving. Ppl there might be happy to upgrade to a better program

Does this actually work? Fellowship spots are not owned by fellows, able to be transferred or swapped at will

 

[cabergoline2]

Does this actually work? Fellowship spots are not owned by fellows, able to be transferred or swapped at will

transfers have happened... at least one of them will be willing to take a downgrade...

best case scenario will be if the transfer would help someone from same tier programs in those regions as well..

 

[cabergoline2]

I think it would be helpful if you ask your friends to post what sort of fellowship program in southeast or east coast mimicks their current fellowship. Eg - first person could say Emory or Augusta or UF Jacksonville. It will give an idea to those who might be interested to know the program caliber that they can get into.

Both programs are of similar caliber... comparable programs might be UMD ,georgetown , wakeforest .. definitely higher tier than tulane or oschner..