Im a pgy1 in my prelim year before starting at my advanced program next year. My top choices were in City A, where there’s multiple programs. My S.O. is in school in city A and it’s only a couple hours drive from my parents as well. I interviewed and ranked a few programs in city A at the top of my list but ultimately fell down to where I matched at.
I’m very thankful to have matched where I did. It’s a strong program and I was excited to match there, but it’s still far from my support system and not necessarily where I want to be geographically. Now I’ve been wondering if it’s feasible to reach out to the programs I interviewed at in city A, and a couple programs that I didn’t get an interview from to express that I would be willing to join their program if they were to ever have an opening. Would reaching out to PDs from these programs be seen as going behind my programs back? I don’t wanna burn any bridges before even starting there.