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My wife is one year ahead of me and would like to do pediatrics, I on the other hand am shooting for ortho. We are both in the top 10 percent of our classes, and on track for AOA. Her Step 1 is 255 and I anticipate mine to be in the ballpark. What should our strategy be to match in the same city on the East Coast?
Should my wife wait a year to do some research or maybe get an MPH and we do couples match together, or should she just match where she wants (obviously in a major city that has many programs for me) and I follow her?
If I were doing something less competitive, she would just go straight into her program and I follow afterward. But would this be really risky with ortho? How much sympathy would program directors have for my situation? I feel I'm certainly competitive on my own merits, but if my wife works in the same hospital at another department, would the PD for ortho at least give some preference to my application all else being equal? Because if I don't match in the same city, odds are my wife will transfer to wherever I land.
Should my wife wait a year to do some research or maybe get an MPH and we do couples match together, or should she just match where she wants (obviously in a major city that has many programs for me) and I follow her?
If I were doing something less competitive, she would just go straight into her program and I follow afterward. But would this be really risky with ortho? How much sympathy would program directors have for my situation? I feel I'm certainly competitive on my own merits, but if my wife works in the same hospital at another department, would the PD for ortho at least give some preference to my application all else being equal? Because if I don't match in the same city, odds are my wife will transfer to wherever I land.
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