Need help... waiver appeal

[allheart42]

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Has anyone successfully appealed an NRMP waiver denial?

I'm a PGY1 finishing up a prelim surgery year with categorical PM&R spot in away city. I recently decided PMR wasn't for me and am pursuing acute care medicine, additionally I recently became engaged to another physician who is super active in the community here and has a very good practice. I've applied for a waiver and been denied on the grounds of it not being "timely" This is true, but I had no idea life would interesting back on January 15th when waiver requests were due.

Anyway has anyone else appealed a denial and won? I'm trying to figure out if meeting the man of my dreams, falling in love, getting engaged and then having to move literally across an ocean counts as enough hardship. Please help if you have real insight ie from experience.

Thanks

 

[shopsteward]

Has anyone successfully appealed an NRMP waiver denial?

I'm a PGY1 finishing up a prelim surgery year with categorical PM&R spot in away city. I recently decided PMR wasn't for me and am pursuing acute care medicine, additionally I recently became engaged to another physician who is super active in the community here and has a very good practice. I've applied for a waiver and been denied on the grounds of it not being "timely" This is true, but I had no idea life would interesting back on January 15th when waiver requests were due.

Anyway has anyone else appealed a denial and won? I'm trying to figure out if meeting the man of my dreams, falling in love, getting engaged and then having to move literally across an ocean counts as enough hardship. Please help if you have real insight ie from experience.

Thanks

You need to think hard about both your immediate priorities and your long term future (each of these in relation to both your career and for your family life), how these factors interrelate, what your best and worst outcomes are for each, and which outcomes you could live with and which you couldn't. I'm not getting from your post that you have done this.

If your priority is not to be away from your new man, you can either ask your program to release you or you can serve out your contracted 45 days at your PMR program and leave without needing a waiver. Technically you could then go back into the match for a new "acute care" program located near your man. Being technically able to go through the match does not mean that any of the geographically limited number of programs you apply to will want you, so it may be the end of your medical career.

If you are going to go down this route, you need to tell your program asap, so that they can start making all the other arrangements they need to because they will not have the employee they expected would start on 1 July and stay for a year. It is possible that they will be sympathetic and not end your career with a bad reference because you let them down.

You and your new are all hearts and roses at the moment, and I'm sure you won't want to hear this, but a scientific look at the odds of a marriage lasting for life are not good, and you are not even married yet.

 

[umean2tellme]

What does "acute care medicine" mean, and why do you want to do that instead of PM&R?

 

[microscp2]

Has anyone successfully appealed an NRMP waiver denial?

I'm a PGY1 finishing up a prelim surgery year with categorical PM&R spot in away city. I recently decided PMR wasn't for me and am pursuing acute care medicine, additionally I recently became engaged to another physician who is super active in the community here and has a very good practice. I've applied for a waiver and been denied on the grounds of it not being "timely" This is true, but I had no idea life would interesting back on January 15th when waiver requests were due.

Anyway has anyone else appealed a denial and won? I'm trying to figure out if meeting the man of my dreams, falling in love, getting engaged and then having to move literally across an ocean counts as enough hardship. Please help if you have real insight ie from experience.

Thanks

good luck, I matched in another city and I am married with 2 sons and husband could not follow me since he just had signed a 5 year lease contract for his office( he is a physician) and my waiver was denied since they did not consider having a family and moving away was not hardship. They told me if I did not presented myself to the program, I would not be able to match for 2 years or for life.
Ended up doing the hard one year that almost caused my divorce (but of course ACGME don't care) and was able to transfer back home. I am one month shy of finally finishing .

 

[IlDestriero]

good luck, I matched in another city and I am married with 2 sons and husband could not follow me since he just had signed a 5 year lease contract for his office( he is a physician) and my waiver was denied since they did not consider having a family and moving away was not hardship. They told me if I did not presented myself to the program, I would not be able to match for 2 years or for life.
Ended up doing the hard one year that almost caused my divorce (but of course ACGME don't care) and was able to transfer back home. I am one month shy of finally finishing .

Contact your program ASAP and work out an arrangement that is fair to both of you. They will be supportive of your decision to leave the field, if you give them enough notice and are flexible about your plan. It's annoying, but they don't want to train you for a job you don't want. It's a shame you didn't make this decision until now, they may have been able to find someone else. (Fmg, research person, janitor, etc.)
My friend left optho very poorly. It was really ugly, clashing egos, attempted sabotage, slander, etc. He did his minimal required time there and left. He matched no problem the next year. But he was a superior candidate with a lot of things going for him.