Brigham Interventional Fellowship

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Any inputs in regards to the program from an insider or who possibly knows the program well. What about the coronary volume/autonomy and their second yr structural/peripheral volumes?
Advices are appreciated.

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Word is that the volume is moderate at best. Particularly given the number of high powered hospitals in the boston area. For a more concrete answer, check the medicare hospital compare website for relative PCI numbers:

Numbers are not absolute but provide a relative comparison among hospitals - here you can see PCI volumes for MGH, Brigham, and BID seem about equal (and moderate at best)

http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcom...lat=42.3584308&lng=-71.0597732&loc=BOSTON, MA

For reference, sinai and columbia are two of the busiest PCI centers (if not the busiest) in the country:

http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcom...t=25&loc=10032&lat=40.8409822&lng=-73.9447994

Sinai has about 6 x the volume of the boston hospitals and NYP has about 10 x (while the bulk of this is Columbia the number combines Columbia + Sinai)


Same trick can be used to compare values across other hospitals.

The success of your interventional training comes down to two things

1) sheer procedural volume, particularly of complex interventions (not that you'll be routinely doing complex PCI in practice but having the skill set allows you to get out of trouble when needed)

2) Level of autonomy the attendings allow in the cath lab - which is hard to gauge except by talking to fellows at the institution.

Hope this helps.
 
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