Starting a second residency

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Has anyone out there had a problem getting their first residency program to release you early so you could be at your new program's orientation and start the second residency on July 1st?

I have 5 days of vacation left and my current program will not allow me to use those days during the last 2 weeks of our program. If I were able to use those days, I would be 5-6 days short of fulfilling my obligations to be board eligible in FP.

I have been accepted into an EM program across the country and orientation starts June 23rd. I have no intentions of ever practicing FP again since my career goal has always been EM. It would be a shame not to complete my current program but it took me 3 years to finally get into an EM program and I want to be at orientation and start with me peers. Also, it is going to take at least a week to get our house moved cross country. Any advice?

Feel free to PM me.

 

[NotAProgDirector]

This happens all the time in IM programs when people go to fellowships. We require people to use vacation time to do so, but set the schedule up in advance so that PGY-3's leaving early have non-call blocks at the end.

It seems unreasonable that your program won't allow you to use your vacation time at the end. If you're on a call block at the end, you should trade that away and then I would think that vacation is fine.

Worst case scenario, if your new program has an FM program, you could try to get a few days of training to count. It could be ED time, credited towards your FM boards. because they are two different boards, the same time could be credited to both. You'd definitely need buy-in from the FM PD at your new program, and probably at the old program.

Advice: Make trades so that any absence doesn't affect anyone else's schedule. This might involve some lopsided trades -- i.e. you might end up working more than what you've traded away for. That puts you in a good negotiating position to get the time off. Ask if some of your ED training time at your new institution can count as finishing your FP training.

 

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