Time off from residency and funding

[ls1runner]

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Let's say I am in a 6-year program that I am not enjoying. If I quit in the middle or at the end of my PGY-2 year and go into industry or research or whatever for a few years before coming back to a different residency does that burn up any of the remaining years of funding? Or does it pause at 2 years with 4 left?

 

[Winged Scapula]

The clock stops when you are doing anything that fails to use the funding.

 

[ls1runner]

Ok thanks for the reply. If you leave in the middle of the second year, does that burn the whole year of funding or just part of it?

 

[neusu]

I'm in a neurosurgery program that hired a new 2nd year after one of ours failed to renew his contract. Does the new guy, coming from a nondesignated internship, have 6 or 7 years of funding, or possibly none and the guy who got canned kept it?

 

[Winged Scapula]

Ok thanks for the reply. If you leave in the middle of the second year, does that burn the whole year of funding or just part of it?

You will only "burn" what you use.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I'm in a neurosurgery program that hired a new 2nd year after one of ours failed to renew his contract. Does the new guy, coming from a nondesignated internship, have 6 or 7 years of funding, or possibly none and the guy who got canned kept it?

The "guy who got canned" is not taking the program's funding with him.

When you start a "terminal residency" the total amount of funding is set. Any funding used previous to this "counts" towards this total.

So your new PGY-2 will start his Nsgy training and be funded for whatever number of years it takes to complete your program. However, he will only be funded partially during his final year (assuming a 7 year program), as he has used one year as a NDP.