Has anyone heard of successful transfers in integrated PRS programs? if there were to be openings (which I imagine are rare), is there a place they would be listed? I tried FREIDA but that website is so out of date it's hard to use. I saw that on other threads potential "swaps" exist, but maybe PRS is so small that again this woudn't be useful. Any advice would be appreciated.
transferring in integrated program?
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I would imagine this to be exceedingly rare.
I would try APDS for positions listed but your best resource is likely to be word of mouth.
I would try APDS for positions listed but your best resource is likely to be word of mouth.
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Integrated positions do open up occasionally, but not nearly as frequently as General Surgery. I think the best resource would be ACAPS -- American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons. Not sure if APDS would have the listings. But WS is correct, those positions are usually filled by word of mouth.
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I defer to the great maxheadroom on the most likely resources but have seen some PRS positions from time to time on APDS (like this one: http://apds.org/education-careers/open-positions/#job1823). Probably as rare as hen's teeth though.
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I suppose it makes sense to advertise open positions in APDS. WS FTW.
Thanks for the help. It seems like there may be situations where integrated residents want to take a year to do research, but are discouraged from doing so because of staffing concerns, etc. If they knew of someone interested in filling that gap it may then be possible. I agree with you guys though that word of mouth is probably the only way that would work out.
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It has become more difficult to bring someone into a non-PGY 1 position in Integrated Plastics. The required rotations for Plastics are pretty different than Gen Surg -- my program had to deal with this a few years ago and we had to add on eight months worth of rotations that the new guy needed to get straight with the RRC.
I imagine that would be pretty hard, luckily I am already in an integrated PRS program so hopefully my PGY 1 rotations would be pretty similar, but from what I learned on the interview trail it can vary a lot. The possible transfer would be for personal/family reasons. Thanks for all of your help!
