I have been always the top of my colleagues in medical schools, and my parents both are doctors. As I said before, being 3 yrs out of practice is not my problem it is the system who keep my application off of any invitations. Cpnsidering any non- medical career is not an option. Considering non practicing jobs is not me. I will be volunteering until I get what I need from the system that hurt my career.
I talked with my husband, who considering to divorce me because I don't wanna move on and forget my career. I need to ask you rural medicine, if you think the 3 yrs out of practice is the reason for why the PD is not considering me, so why he did not offer any IVs before I get out of 5 yrs cut off when PGY-2 was available and I was already volunteering and the position were their for over than 5 months without filling. I am very hard working and they keep watching me strugle and when I went and ask him If i can fill PGY-2 he said we don't hire IMGS in our program!!! So God help me I need prayers and I need to see nice people that's what I need believe me.
Ok, first of all, you need to understand that it is not anyone else's job to provide you with a residency spot. I'm not trying to be unkind, I just think that you really don't grasp this and until you do I think you're going to have a very difficult time pulling yourself together enough to put together as competitive an application as you can, conduct yourself well in a face to face interview, and ultimately make it through internship if you manage to match somewhere.
As for why you weren't offered any interviews I would guess it was because none of the programs you applied to felt you were a competitive enough applicant for them to extend an invite. I think most residency programs probably interview somewhere around 8-10 people for every spot that they have. More favorable programs (or perhaps just programs who believe they are more favorable) may interview a few less because they believe that their candidates are more likely to rank them at the top of their match list. Programs who have had problems with filling in the past may interview a few more than ten per spot. I'm a few years out of residency so perhaps this has changed but we offered 16 spots in the match, interviewed 150 candidates for those spots, and usually didn't extend interviews to another 350 plus or so. No one had anything against those 350 candidates they just didn't make the cut for whatever reason because other applicants appeared more favorable at least on paper (whether that was because they had better step1/2 scores, whether their clinical grades were better, whether their recommendations or personal statement or research just screamed yeah you've got to at least give them a chance to a program director or whatever). Given match results for us and match percentages based on NMRP data that was published at the time I would imagine that a lot of the candidates we didn't interview were granted interviews by other programs (perhaps even programs they liked on paper more than ours---wouldn't that be a win-win?), matched at those programs and probably went on to be competent physicians.
So I guess a big question for you to ask yourself is if you really applied to every possible program? If you did and you've been passed over for even an interview through three cycles then, unless you have some way to make your application stronger, I would imagine you will be passed over completely for a fourth cycle as well. If you only applied in a narrow geographic area or only to competitive university programs then perhaps just widening your net will get you into a pool where you can be competitive and if you have your heart set on medicine then I think this would be a reasonable approach.
I have two options I found to fix my career history: I need your advise in choosing between them
First, I foud university in Chicago agrees to give me rotating internship ( hands on ) for year. I will pay for them a lot of money to do that.
2nd, is European university recently opened in the state, has offered me to take laste two years ( clinical part) as medical student ( transfere) then they will give me medical diploma ( MD) that will fix the year of graduation that I have ? So I will be graduate of 2016.
Which one you think based on your experience is better option for me.
Your recommendation and advise is really helping me.. That's for doing that for us.
-If the program in Chicago would give you credit for PGY1 then perhaps this would be a good option. I would worry that this may be a dead ended PGY1 and I was under the impression that most states will not license IMGs without completing at least 3 years of PGY so it may not gain you anything. At the same time it could give you a better idea of what US residency training is like, could help you build connections (maybe you would have a good letter from one of the attending there, or maybe as an added bonus he has a pal who is an OB-Gyn PD somewhere who knows).
-I'm a little confused about your second option. Is this a LCME accredited school in the US? If that is the case then this could really help because suddenly you would be an AMG. It sounds a little bit too easy so I admit I'm a bit scam wary but if things are really on the up this could be a great opportunity for you. Having the opportunity to do your clinical rotations will definitely get you used to functioning within the US health care system (which truly is a lot different than many other nations---I'm not saying it is better I'm just saying it is very different), you can identify and correct any knowledge gaps you have and you should have a slew of options for letters and really taking a legitimate shot at 2017 (I'm presuming if you really need to do 2 years you wouldn't be able to get done in 2016 if you started at this point.)
