Fellowship Match!

Hey, so guess what? We know where we are going to be moving for a year come this July! Before I reveal the location let me explain...

Boyfriend has finished 4 years of medical school in Salt Lake, Utah-
then an internship year of internal medicine at Las Vegas, NV-
then, this June, he will finish up his 3 year residency of ophthalmology here in Memphis, TN.

He could be done after that. We could go into practice and live where we want, BUT, just for the fun of it, Boyfriend would like to add one more year of specialty training. He wants to be an Ophthalmologist specialized in Cornea. He is just that cool.

So for the two months of October & November, he was flying across the country interviewing at 7 different programs. He also had a week long "eyeball" conference in San Fransisco and then a week of charity "eyeball" surgery in Mexico. One might have noticed I wasn't blogging much then. Everything seemed to be spinning at that moment... we were husbandless/fatherless, I had just found out why I was SO MORNING SICK, plus the flu hit our house and all the other lovely season changing illnesses. I personally felt I was swimming in an ocean of despair. Luckily I was able to fly home to Las Vegas for a couple of weeks with the girls and have family wait on me hand and foot. That was so fantastic! Boyfriend was able to arrive just in time for Thanksgiving. When I returned back to reality, more then one person mentioned how good I was looking. It was called REST!

Here is a family pic from the trip to Vegas. Don't we ALL look well rested? My mom is not going to love this!

Well, when one applies for a fellowship it works like this:
1. Apply to programs
2. Hope to get an interview with program(s)
3. Rank all the programs in order of preference
4. Programs rank all the interviewees in order of preference
5. Computer matches up all the interviewees with the programs according to the rank list.

Applying for residency worked the same way. But the odds were much different. Boyfriend applied to 40 different ophthalmology programs, interviewed at 11, and we matched at our #6 on the rank list. As for fellowship, he applied to 10 programs, received 7 interviews, and matched at his #1 on our rank list! Yep! We got our number one location! We are thrilled!

DENVER, COLORADO - here we come (all six of us) in July of 2010 until July of 2011.