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Residency resign - meddoc28 - ArchivalUser - 07-05-2008
Hello guys, what happened if, after a month of having started residency, I quit it. Do you think it'd lead to severe legal consequences? Do you think I could be free to do so? A contract is i contract but I don't know if I will be able to breake it. if it was under a prematch and not under the match process, will it be as bad? Please guys guide me through this so I don't make a mistake when chosing second options. Thanks in advanced.
0 - ArchivalUser - 07-05-2008
you will have a hard time getting in another place meddoc. You will need to explain why you quit. I don't think you should be asking legal advice here we are not lawyers. you should ask your lawyer the consequences of breaking a contract. But regardless that.. I think you would have a hard time getting in somewhere else second time around.
0 - ArchivalUser - 07-05-2008
Thank you brainlegs, you are right, to tell you the truth, I'm in that position right now, I feel I had made the wrong choice despite being so eager to start residency and belive everything would be just fine, now I relise I betrayed myself by choosing something I am not happy with and I won't be happy with also. I don't know what I should do, continue with this lie or pretend as if everything is just fine and go on, I know I won't be 100% concentrated and I worry about this since I don't want a patient to be treated by someone who isn't sure about what his doctor wants. I know I will be tagged as inmature and stupid, but I'm a human and I make a mistakes. I hope I find a way out.
0 - ArchivalUser - 07-05-2008
Yes, doctors make this kind of poor judgement all the time by being desperate to grab anything that is available rather than going for their dreams even at the cost of not matching. But since u have made the mistake I will complete the internship but not renew the contract for PGY2. That means you have to start submitting application for next match from sept 1. It is nothing new and others have done it successfully and so can you. Goodluck cos you will need it.
0 - ArchivalUser - 07-06-2008
You have a residency and want to quit we are desperatly looking for it please if you quit please e mail me on residencyluck
0 - ArchivalUser - 07-06-2008
please mail at niki1_sharma if you really want to quit. I am desperate too. socilly ,personally and financially.thanks
0 - ArchivalUser - 07-06-2008
residencybecomehard and shyama, why do you want me to e-mail you? Do you think at this point my place in the hospital will be available for you if I quit right now? Is there anyway possible? I mean, because if that's true I will surely e-mail you, I don't know whether the contract can be broken now but if you explain to me how things can be done legally I will contact you as soon as I see some light in what you write since I know there will be a place available and I don't want the hospital to pay the consequences of my stupidity. Right now it would be the wrong thing to give you further information since I don't know whether I can quit or not. Please help.
0 - ArchivalUser - 07-06-2008
meddoc28, are you on any visa? H1b or J1? what is your future plan once you quit?
0 - ArchivalUser - 07-06-2008
Espoir, I'm on H1b, I don't know what to do. I think I will work and spend time thinking about what I should do next. This is very difficult to me, sad at the same time since I never expected I would end up like this. I think I score against me, just like a soccer game, I don't know what to do. My family is so dissapointed at me, and that's what hurts the most.
0 - ArchivalUser - 07-06-2008
My mother and sisters will need money from me, my mother keeps telling me I should't do that since I will regret it and perhaps I will, but it's just this feeling of emptiness and dispair for the specialty I always dreamt of, even that specialty can be done in my country, besides, she will stop working within a year so they will kind of expect some economical help from me. One more thing, I just can get used to living in the US, I really miss my country, I think I can do great thing over there but, of course, money is a factor. I just don't know what to do. Plese help giving me a sincere advice.