Hey cliquesh can you enlighten me on how fellowship works, and what do they look at when you are trying to apply for one (how can someone be competitive for fellowship) ? Also, can you be attending and be in a fellowship at the same time?
Fellowships are additional training after residency. You generally will apply to fellowship the year before your last year, so if you're doing internal medicine, which is three years long, you'll apply during your second year. If you're doing anesthesia, which is 4years, you'll apply during your 3rd year. The application process for some fellowships, like internal medicine fellowships, is standardized. There is a national application service run by the NRMP and you match into your fellowship like you'd match into your residency.
Other fellowships, like bone and soft tissue pathology, do not use any standardized service. Instead you apply directly to the program and, if they like you, they'll offer you the position; you do not have to wait for match day.
Reputation of your training program is arguably the most important factor. Research, LORs, board scores, medical school transcripts are also used. Some specialities use the scores from in-service examinations, which are speciality specific exams all residents need to take once a year.
It's pretty much just applying to residency all over, but more research is probably expected.
It's in your best interest to go to a residency that has the fellowships you are interested in, and has a history of taking their own internal candidates.
No, you cannot be a fellow in training and attending at the same time. However, you can be a fellow of your speciality college and an attending at the same time. Like, if you're an established cardiologist, you can become a fellow of the American college of Cardiology and stick FACC behind your name, so you'd be Dr. Night, D.O., FACC.
inb4 someone screams Bayview is not Hopkins.
Hah, serenade knows what's up. That John Hopkins/Sinai match, is Sinai hospital in Baltimore and it has an affiliation with John Hopkins in name only; few, if any, attendings from the main hospital work there. Similarly, I'm pretty sure the university of Chicago internal medicine match is at the UofChicago north shore campus, which is a community hospital. Many hospitals have satellite campuses, like mayo in arizona, clevelnd clinic in Florida, Yale, univ. penn, etc, and they are generally no where near the same quality as the main campus.
