Clinical years schedule

[EhJJ]

My fiancée and I would like to get married in two years (May 2010). That puts me right in the middle of my clinical rotations (which I would start in Aug/Sept 2009 and end May 2011). Waiting until after I get my core rotation schedule in August 2009 is way too late to plan a wedding. Could I reasonably set a date in the next few months and then move my rotations around to fit that date later? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[dunsoon]

It depends on if you are at a clinical center or not. If you are at a clinical center, you cannot rearrange your rotations and will be in rotations from august/september until april or may, depending on the place. So having your wedding in May might be okay but then again might not be. Especially if your last rotation is surgery or something like that (again, you have very little say over the schedule). If you are not at a clinical center you could schedule your cores around your wedding, keeping in mind that it may cause downstream constraints on when you can take time off to study for Step II, when you take time off for interviews, etc.

[rokshana]

many people wait till the end of 4th year (since i have a ton of weddings to go the next few weeks!) to get married--then there are no rotations to worry about and your friends are free to go too!

[Toddaa1]

My advice is to put it off until after you graduate.

First off you will actually have a few weeks off to enjoy the honeymoon. You will have no free time during clinicals.

Secondly: if you get married during med school, and later get divorced I believe you may need to pay her half of what you make as an MD because she had to "go through the rigors of med school with you", this should not be the case if you earn the MD before marriage. I am a Dr not a lawyer so I would get a second opinion.

-T-
1 day left of med school

[kash33]

I just did exactly what you are planning, I got married 2 weeks ago and it was right after my cores at my clinical center ended. I set the date when I got the schedule from the hospital. I think a year is good enough time to plan a wedding. I do agree that I did not get to enjoy things as much because of time constraints, but not my time constraints; she's a 3rd/4th termer at Ross, and she had to go back. If you have a lot of bridge time to play with then you can take off for a few weeks and really enjoy your wedding and honeymoon. But if you're at a clinical center, then don't set a date until you have your schedule in your hand.

[Never Mind the Bollocks]

Do they give you your entire core schedule with specific dates when you start your first rotation?