Relocating

[penandpaper]

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How tricky is it to relocate during the final year of training? I know some spots open up as people fast track into child and adolescent, but I don't sense programs recruit. Need to swap coasts.

 

[vistaril]

How tricky is it to relocate during the final year of training? I know some spots open up as people fast track into child and adolescent, but I don't sense programs recruit. Need to swap coasts.

programs don't recruit because it's just a year after all(and not one of required rotations for the most part) and the soon to be 4th year is in someone elses program.

Look, it's going to be fairly easy to switch. Especially if you have a good reason(like a spouse who got a job in a new city). It may be harder to switch if you just want to switch for no good reason. Either way, it's your pgy4 year....it's just not a big deal either way

 

[notdeadyet]

Look, it's going to be fairly easy to switch. Especially if you have a good reason(like a spouse who got a job in a new city).

Have you actually heard of people doing this? Switching psych programs in PGY-4 year?

Since there are few-to-none required fourth year rotations and few programs have anything in the way of call, I don't see the incentives programs would have to take on a new, unknown resident for just the PGY-4 year.

 

[LimbicResponse]

I'm gonna go to a community program in South Dakota and then transfer to MGH 4th year so I could get my degree.

 

[vistaril]

Have you actually heard of people doing this? Switching psych programs in PGY-4 year?

Since there are few-to-none required fourth year rotations and few programs have anything in the way of call, I don't see the incentives programs would have to take on a new, unknown resident for just the PGY-4 year.

oh yeah....all the time. A few people I went to med school moved for their 4th year of training to different programs for different reasons. When I was an intern I remember our program had a new 4th year join(iirc husband had moved to do his child fellowship and she came with him and finished up her residency)

I think it's not that uncommon.

 

[MacDonaldTriad]

Programs lose PGY-IVs all the time to fast tracking child bound PGY-IIIs. I don't think any of them replace the losses very often unless they have an exterior motivation to do so. PGY-IVs are mostly on elective time and the budget savings for losing one is easy to like. If you are very flexible about where you end up, this could work, but don't be too sure.

 

[notdeadyet]

Programs lose PGY-IVs all the time to fast tracking child bound PGY-IIIs. I don't think any of them replace the losses very often unless they have an exterior motivation to do so.

Yeah, ditto this.

 

[MDchouette]

I know someone who switched in PGY4 due to a husband's job in another city. This person went from a top program to an upper-to-mid-range program so the new program was tickled to get her.

 

[penandpaper]

I know someone who switched in PGY4 due to a husband's job in another city. This person went from a top program to an upper-to-mid-range program so the new program was tickled to get her.

This roughly echoes my situation..."high tier"/"location" which
I hope helps motivate receptiveness on the other end.
I've heard of people that have done the same but wasn't sure how to approach it.

 

[billypilgrim37]

I had a great program that was ready to take me for one year as a pgy5 child fellow, so weirder things have happened. It was where I went to med school and where my wife is in law school, but still.