coming back to radiology

[Dr34566]

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Have you heard of any residents who took significant time off between medical school and residency or during residency, without doing anything to improve their residency application?

Meaning either a year of just travel, or working at a pharmaceutical company for a few years.

I would not include things like radiology research, or even a MPH on this list.

When did they do their intern year? Did it matter in terms of applying back?

I am thinking of taking some time off to try new things.
Curious to hear if anyone else has done the same.

 

[f_w]

Have you heard of any residents who took significant time off between medical school and residency or during residency, without doing anything to improve their residency application.

We had a resident who raised 3 kids from delivery to teenager between PGY-3 and PGY-4.

 

[osli]

We had a resident who raised 3 kids from delivery to teenager between PGY-3 and PGY-4.

Wow, that's kinda cool that the program would be that flexible for her (him?). But hella scary... medicine advances quickly on all fronts, but the technology improvements (and/or additions) in 15 years in radiology are break-neck. Or so it seems from the outside, at least. That would take quite some woman (man?) to cover lost ground and get back on track.

I suppose it would help if you kept up with current advances while on leave, which may have been the case.

 

[f_w]

Wow, that's kinda cool that the program would be that flexible for her (him?).

Actually, she left one program and came to us 10 years later (when a PGY-4 slot opened up due to additional funding).

 

[osli]

lol, yeah I guess I should have figured that. I'm having one of my many idiot days. 🙂

 

[Dr34566]

Anyone else with similar experiences?