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Hello everyone, I need your help. I'm applying for the Ophtho match this Summer and my fiance and I are trying to set a wedding date for this Fall(2014). When are most Ophtho interviews typically offered? I found conflicting information on the forums with some threads showing October as the busy month and some showing November.
My fiance is a 4th year med student applying to Internal Medicine(we are doing couples match for my Prelim). We originally wanted to have a wedding in Feb/March of 2015, but we are living long distance and being engaged for another year long distance is not something we want to do anymore. She is taking Step2 in June and has SubI's in July/August. Applications go out Sept 15th so until then we don't want to have a wedding.
Dec, Jan, Feb are out because of the weather in her town(Dallas)- there are 'freezes' where the whole city is shut down for days at a time because there is no system like Chi, NY where streets are salted and etc. Her parents don't want to take the risk of planning a big wedding and then having the electricity or whole city get shut down down for the entire weekend(this happened recently a few weeks ago and it was Feb! The entire city was shut down for a day due to icy roads and a friend's wedding was ruined). It's happened 3 years in a row and it may sound funny that "winter weather" is in an issue in Dallas, but it would be dumb to plan a big budget wedding around then and have the risk of cancelling due to weather.
We don't want to do March/April because that is way too close to us both starting intern year - which we both know is going to be hell and not the best time to start our first year of marriage(we have never lived together). The emotional, physical, mental stress of intern year hours for both of us plus a new marriage is not a combination I'd like to pursue if I have the choice.
That leaves us with end of Sept, October and November. We'd also like a week long honeymoon. It is going to be a big traditional South Asian wedding so we need at least a 2-week block for the wedding and honeymoon.
I know of one program in TX that only offers 2 interview dates the first 2 Fridays of November. That really worries me because I don't want to limit my interview options because of a conflicting wedding date.
Any suggestions??
My fiance is a 4th year med student applying to Internal Medicine(we are doing couples match for my Prelim). We originally wanted to have a wedding in Feb/March of 2015, but we are living long distance and being engaged for another year long distance is not something we want to do anymore. She is taking Step2 in June and has SubI's in July/August. Applications go out Sept 15th so until then we don't want to have a wedding.
Dec, Jan, Feb are out because of the weather in her town(Dallas)- there are 'freezes' where the whole city is shut down for days at a time because there is no system like Chi, NY where streets are salted and etc. Her parents don't want to take the risk of planning a big wedding and then having the electricity or whole city get shut down down for the entire weekend(this happened recently a few weeks ago and it was Feb! The entire city was shut down for a day due to icy roads and a friend's wedding was ruined). It's happened 3 years in a row and it may sound funny that "winter weather" is in an issue in Dallas, but it would be dumb to plan a big budget wedding around then and have the risk of cancelling due to weather.
We don't want to do March/April because that is way too close to us both starting intern year - which we both know is going to be hell and not the best time to start our first year of marriage(we have never lived together). The emotional, physical, mental stress of intern year hours for both of us plus a new marriage is not a combination I'd like to pursue if I have the choice.
That leaves us with end of Sept, October and November. We'd also like a week long honeymoon. It is going to be a big traditional South Asian wedding so we need at least a 2-week block for the wedding and honeymoon.
I know of one program in TX that only offers 2 interview dates the first 2 Fridays of November. That really worries me because I don't want to limit my interview options because of a conflicting wedding date.
Any suggestions??