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Hi all, need some outside perspectives on a situation.
I just successfully couples matched with my husband, but despite going on a ton of great interviews, we ended up with our #14 pair. My husband is going into ortho, and we're so grateful that he matched into such a tough field, but are very disappointed because the match means that I will be at an obgyn program that doesn't sync up well with my career goals. (I am very academically oriented and planning on fellowship, but the program mostly pumps out private practice generalists. I mostly received interview offers from top programs, while my husband was middle of the pack.)
The city we'll be in has a top 20-ish obgyn residency that would have been great for me, but I never got off the interview waitlist there despite them telling me that they would've given me an interview if they'd just gotten to my application earlier.
According to the NRMP support line, I can apply again for PGY-1 as a PGY-1 if I'm willing to repeat the year. I would only apply to this one other program, because my husband and I do not want to do long-distance.
Does this seem unreasonable? Do you think I would just be shooting myself in the foot in case the other program doesn't wind up ranking me and I have to stay put at my current program that would likely find out about my request to move and start over? What do you think my chances would be anyway?
I just successfully couples matched with my husband, but despite going on a ton of great interviews, we ended up with our #14 pair. My husband is going into ortho, and we're so grateful that he matched into such a tough field, but are very disappointed because the match means that I will be at an obgyn program that doesn't sync up well with my career goals. (I am very academically oriented and planning on fellowship, but the program mostly pumps out private practice generalists. I mostly received interview offers from top programs, while my husband was middle of the pack.)
The city we'll be in has a top 20-ish obgyn residency that would have been great for me, but I never got off the interview waitlist there despite them telling me that they would've given me an interview if they'd just gotten to my application earlier.
According to the NRMP support line, I can apply again for PGY-1 as a PGY-1 if I'm willing to repeat the year. I would only apply to this one other program, because my husband and I do not want to do long-distance.
Does this seem unreasonable? Do you think I would just be shooting myself in the foot in case the other program doesn't wind up ranking me and I have to stay put at my current program that would likely find out about my request to move and start over? What do you think my chances would be anyway?