folgersormh
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I’m an intern in a four year residency and when I created my rank list I had to rely heavily on location. I ranked a program that wasn’t a good fit for me but in a desirable location over ones that were better fits but far away (sick parent, needed to be close). However, I am having a terrible time here. It’s a community program and no one teaches. I’ve literally looked at UpToDate guidelines and then the attending says no and when I ask why we’re deviating he’d just say “I don’t really have time to explain.” Obviously that’s 1 attending but I’ve worked with 7 others since then and no one actively teaches, not even the med students. I never experienced this at my academic med school. This place is teetering on workhorse program.
I wish I ranked with my brain rather than emotion. I want to leave. Can I apply this upcoming Match to academic places? I’m willing to repeat PGY1 if it means a better place. I genuinely feel like I’m not learning and I’m worried I won’t get the education and training I need to be personally fulfilled. Plus I didn’t realize that research and academia were actually important to me. There are no opportunities here. They even got rid of their research curriculum this year (and didn’t tell us when we were applying). So whatever little support existed is now gutted.
I just want out. Do I just open the application and basically resubmit my material? Like the LORs and essays.
ETA: and it’s not that I fell to this program. It was my top 3 and I had to rank with location in mind. I basically thought I needed to be in the immediate area so had to rank accordingly but I no longer need that and I’m miserable here.
I wish I ranked with my brain rather than emotion. I want to leave. Can I apply this upcoming Match to academic places? I’m willing to repeat PGY1 if it means a better place. I genuinely feel like I’m not learning and I’m worried I won’t get the education and training I need to be personally fulfilled. Plus I didn’t realize that research and academia were actually important to me. There are no opportunities here. They even got rid of their research curriculum this year (and didn’t tell us when we were applying). So whatever little support existed is now gutted.
I just want out. Do I just open the application and basically resubmit my material? Like the LORs and essays.
ETA: and it’s not that I fell to this program. It was my top 3 and I had to rank with location in mind. I basically thought I needed to be in the immediate area so had to rank accordingly but I no longer need that and I’m miserable here.