It is. Some programs do pre-match offers
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And today IS Match Day and students should know exactly where they matched…I think by now.
for anyone going through the match this year!
Two local kids I know matched at an IM program 5 minutes from my house and 15,20 mins from theirs. Parents are very happy 
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After spending 4 years undergrad in New York, D is doing all the texas universities - moving from Medicine in UT system now to residency in A&M system.
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My daughter graduates next week!
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My kid is doing a fellowship. She is able to work per diem at least twice a month. All that goes towards paying off loans. Since she has MPH classes three nights a week, she seldom gets a day off. But she is fine with this!
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Must be private practice doctors or overbooked primary care doctors. My spouse is a specialist who is an employee for a large system and never works during her time off. Since they get more time to see patients , case notes are also done during work hours.
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@srk2017 It’s not just patient notes that cause doctors to work at home. There’s other stuff like billing, insurance and responding to patient emails/phone calls.
My younger daughter works for a smalll practice group within a large hospital system. Her practice group of 8 employs one FTE nurse just to respond to routine, non-scheduling patient emails and phone calls. D says taking care of those is absolutely a full time job and some weeks it’s more than full time.
True, but in big groups those are handled by staff and calls are also streamlined. You make less money but you have work-life balance
D1 in fellowship has better work hours than residency but is routinely at home filing reports after hours.
D2 graduated from med school on 8th. Orientation starts 25th june.
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Or you find college premed student who can do it at night or between classes and happy make some money. My DD does it remotely for one of the offices. She and medical office are very happy with such arrangement.
Because of the types of questions asked and the types of medical & patient information handled, a pre-med can’t do this job. It requires some level of medical training. For example, a pre-med can’t authorize a prescription refill, discuss medication side effects nor give sensitive test results to a patient.
All are outside their scope of practice, not to mention a major HIPAA violation.
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But scheduling, communication and some payment can be done. That free medical staff to adress any other issues
The front office does that…not the nurse.
D’s nurse may work on doing insurance pre-authorization for medical procedures (because those require disclosing the reason why a procedure is necessary) , but she doesn’t do scheduling,routine communication like sending appointment reminders or collecting. She only handles medical questions for the group.
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Isn’t your daughter in her first year of UG? That would be a minimum of 7 years to residency.
My daughter and SIL both have after work notes, sometimes phone calls and always things to prep for every morning. Hours are never constant. My SIL is an attending and my daughter is a 7th year chief resident. Work after and before hours is a given
This thread is about residency so I’ll comment on that first . During residency, my kid most often had to stay at last an hour after the shift ended
As an attending, the kid stays an hour or so after each shift and sometimes has to complete patient notes at home. It’s the way it is…and expected.
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My daughter is doing a triple board residency. She is finishing her fourth year and has one portion completed. We just went to that graduation a couple of weeks ago. She will graduate from the other two portions and the residency as a whole a year from now. She is now eligible to take one of the licensing exams this fall, though she can not say yet that she has graduated from residency.
She is applying for fellowships right now and expects to know in December where she will be going next summer to start that.
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So she will take 3 separate board exams? How much preparation do they need?
Yes, she will take 3 exams. She is only allowed one exam a year. She will take one this year because she is done with the requirements for one, even though she has not finished the residency yet.
She will take one next year and plans to take another in 2026. She says they are costly enough that she may not feel she can afford more than one a year anyway.
She is applying for a fellowship and that will add a 4th exam if she wants to take it.
She just had a study week last week. I guess the prep is the same as any one exam, just 3 years of exams. The 2nd and 3rd exams are on the same subject matter, just one is a general exam and one is pediatrics in the subject matter, so there will be some overlap. And, with the exams being a year apart she should have plenty of prep time.
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