Pulmonary/Critical Care 2012-2013 Application Cycle

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I wasn't expecting to match but I did.

I just wanted to thank everyone in this thread. Was a lurker before. Hope to post more.

Matched to my number 1 choice, University of South Florida. Congratulations and best of luck!

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Just wanted to post some of my interview experiences and advice. I was a fairly competitive applicant. I'm going to skip over the obvious things that are helpful and just focus on a few things I found helpful. Ultimately, I ended up matching at a "top tier" program.

1. Research: I certainly don't have a research powerhouse background; however, one thing that served me well was that I new the data behind my research cold. There were a few times when someone would reference an article relevant to my field of research and I think it helped that I was able to speak intelligently about potential implications of other studies on my own project. Whatever your research is, make sure you understand it, have background reading and know what some next steps could be.

2. Interviews: Make sure you have a story to tell about who you are, why you want to go into pulmonary /cc and what you see as your career (private v. academic; research v. clinical; pulm v. CC). Most of the questions I got were fairly straightforward and asked me to address these sorts of topics. Almost every place asked me what I was asking for in a program. While I obviously spun my answer based on where I was interviewing; I made sure to be honest about what I want to do with my career and the sort of research I wanted to do during fellowship. The last thing I wanted was to say I want to be a primary researcher and work in a lab (when I don't) and then get to a program and have them be expecting me to be someone who I'm not.

3. After the Interview: I actually got very little post-interview contact. A few programs sent me positive (but not guarantees) e-mails in response to me expressing interest. Only a couple sent me unprompted communication. I did have a faculty member contact people at my top choice, but I don't know if it actually helped.

If I think of other useful things, I'll add them. Let me know if you have any questions.

For those of you that interiewed at Duke what did you think of the interview day? I did most of the interview day hosting so looking for areas that you thought we did well in or that you thought we could improve upon. Feel free to PM me if you do not want to post on the forum. Thanks and good luck to you all in July!

Can someone tell me what text book to read to prepare for pulmonary fellowship? Is Murray and Nadel the right one? Thanks!

Originally Posted by siennee

Can someone tell me what text book to read to prepare for pulmonary fellowship? Is Murray and Nadel the right one? Thanks!

My personal bias is fishman's has a more clinical slant and easier to read. But it's like arguing Cecil's vs Harrison's.

is there a good internal medicine board review live course that the current fellow have attended? Thanks.

Does anyone know much about Loma Linda PCCM program in California? I know majority of California programs are difficult to get in. My friend is a resident there and said it is not super competitive. The program only has two US MD graduates and the rest are FMGs and DOs. Does anyone have any experience with Loma Linda?

Is it time to start a new 2013-14 PCCM application cycle sticky?

Also hope for some advice from those that just went through the application process. Perhaps even gain even more insight into certain programs as recently matched fellows start fellowship at their respective institutions.

Originally Posted by slippers82

Is it time to start a new 2013-14 PCCM application cycle sticky?

No.

When ERAS opens, we'll talk about it.

Pulm/Critical care fellowship 2013

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Hi Everybody,

I am new to this forum. I know its a bit early for the fellowship process this yr. I intend to apply for PCCM fellowship this yr. Have been involved in some interesting clinical asthma research for about an yr but don't have any publications/abstract/presentations (and don't see any coming soon). Am an IMG and have been working as a community PCP for abt 5yrs after residency (from a good Univ program), just wondering if I had any chances to get a good clinically sound PCCM fellowship spot.Will appreciate any advice. Thanks.

Pulm/Critical care fellowship 2014

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Hi Everybody,

I am new to this forum. I know its a bit early for the fellowship process this yr. I intend to apply for PCCM fellowship this yr. Have been involved in some interesting clinical asthma research for about an yr but don't have any publications/abstract/presentations (and don't see any coming soon). Am an IMG and have been working as a community PCP for abt 5yrs after residency (from a good Univ program), just wondering if I had any chances to get a good clinically sound PCCM fellowship spot.Will appreciate any advice. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Communitydoc

Pulm/Critical care fellowship 2014

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Hi Everybody,

I am new to this forum. I know its a bit early for the fellowship process this yr. I intend to apply for PCCM fellowship this yr. Have been involved in some interesting clinical asthma research for about an yr but don't have any publications/abstract/presentations (and don't see any coming soon). Am an IMG and have been working as a community PCP for abt 5yrs after residency (from a good Univ program), just wondering if I had any chances to get a good clinically sound PCCM fellowship spot.Will appreciate any advice. Thanks.

Honestly . . . will be an uphill battle. I mean, I don't know of any off the top of my head "bad" clinical spots for pulmonary and critical care by reputation, so just about any of them should be fine if all you want to do is general pulm and critical care.

How bad do you want to do this? It actually might be easier to find a solitary pulmonary spot first, and then a single year of critical care afterwards.

So I perused most of this thread and I realise as the cycle is over and the July 2014 cyycle is about to start most are probably done posting/reading it but if anyone interviewed for the 2 year pure CC or 3 year pulm/cc at wake could you PM me your thoughts about the 2 programs. thanks.

Originally Posted by jdh71

I spend all season doing my best to help out in here and I can only get three or four of you to tell me you matched??

Lame.

Congrats to everyone. And good luck.

I know that this is super late, but I got caught up in trying to finish my program, and I was involved in a very traumatic personal experience, which I won't get into now.

But I applied to like 30 programs.

Got 6-7 interviews.

Ranked only 2.

And got my #1.

Thanks for all the help.

Originally Posted by wyclefjaundice

I know that this is super late, but I got caught up in trying to finish my program, and I was involved in a very traumatic personal experience, which I won't get into now.

But I applied to like 30 programs.

Got 6-7 interviews.

Ranked only 2.

And got my #1.

Thanks for all the help.

Was the traumatic experience a dream where you ended up have to withdraw your apps and be a hospitalist instead for 2 years? Scary. Yet eerily familiar......