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Dating a Doctor

I have been in a long distance relationship with a Doctor for quite sometime, who’s in her F1 year currently as we both live in the UK and herself being a non British Citizen. She currently lives a good few hours away from me while undertaking her foundation year and eventually wants to specialise in Gynaecology.

The plan was to live together once completing her 2 year foundation program but was unaware of a no guarantee location once the test results called “Multi-Specialty Recruitment Assessment” are released at the start of F2. In the test she needs to score super high in order to get her 1st choice location to do her Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She would need to compete with the other 1300 or however many people to become the 5% who can bypass the interview.

If she’s not able to make it into the 5% and instead take the interview, there’s no guarantee of her chosen region. I hear once you’re given the region to do the specialism you’re not able to transfer location at any point. This is with no reason being accepted and must complete the full 7 years of specialism.

But my main question is what is the level of competition and difficulty to undertake Obstetrics & Gynaecology as a specialism in the North West part of England? Are there any solutions around this?
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Original post by AQ12345678
I have been in a long distance relationship with a Doctor for quite sometime, who’s in her F1 year currently as we both live in the UK and herself being a non British Citizen. She currently lives a good few hours away from me while undertaking her foundation year and eventually wants to specialise in Gynaecology.

The plan was to live together once completing her 2 year foundation program but was unaware of a no guarantee location once the test results called “Multi-Specialty Recruitment Assessment” are released at the start of F2. In the test she needs to score super high in order to get her 1st choice location to do her Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She would need to compete with the other 1300 or however many people to become the 5% who can bypass the interview.

If she’s not able to make it into the 5% and instead take the interview, there’s no guarantee of her chosen region. I hear once you’re given the region to do the specialism you’re not able to transfer location at any point. This is with no reason being accepted and must complete the full 7 years of specialism.

But my main question is what is the level of competition and difficulty to undertake Obstetrics & Gynaecology as a specialism in the North West part of England? Are there any solutions around this?

Easiest one, unless their are fixed reasons why you cant, you should move to wherever she gets location wise.

Other option is to try not to get caught up in so many hypotheticals. She hasnt even sat the tests yet and you are already working on assumption she wont get anywhere near to you. The North West will generally be less competitive than southeast etc, so could be okay.

Other people with more expert knowledge on medicine will help you with specifics.

Greg
This is why anyone shouldn't get too caught up in careers. The career ends up running your life rather than you running it. I agree with the above poster, don't cross bridges that may never need to be crossed. Otherwise you are making problems out of things that may never be a problem even if it looks likely. Wait until nearer the time to deal with it if it comes up.

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