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Anyone start the interview trail here on the west coast yet for regional fellowships? Thoughts? Particularly UCSD, UC Irvine, Virginia Mason, Stanford?
You have to be some sort of a mutant to be even considering this fellowshipAnyone start the interview trail here on the west coast yet for regional fellowships? Thoughts? Particularly UCSD, UC Irvine, Virginia Mason, Stanford?
Probably just a resident in a program with weak regional training. Smart people do extra training either in the field of their passion or to fill the gaps.You have to be some sort of a mutant to be even considering this fellowship
You have to be some sort of a mutant to be even considering this fellowship
At least OB fellowship is ACGME accredited. I don't really see the need for either fellowship either. Any board certified anesthesiologist should be able to handle complex OB cases and OB emergency without any problen. Those cases depend more on institutional readiness than anything else. There is also not that many regional blocks to learn that takes a whole year of fellowship to do. Besides, most standard blocks are easy enough with ultrasound and quite effective.Is this fellowship worse than an OB fellowship?
Unfortunately, more training is the wave of the future. Hospitals and departments benefit from the cheap labor and administrators who don't know any better will start to require it. Do you really need a 12 month cardiac fellowship to learn TEE in order to do bread and butter hearts in the community?
Just ask all the CRNAs doing them around the country.Besides, most standard blocks are easy enough with ultrasound and quite effective.
Anyone start the interview trail here on the west coast yet for regional fellowships? Thoughts? Particularly UCSD, UC Irvine, Virginia Mason, Stanford?
Regional fellowships are touted as a way to do more blocks, but I know of programs that have fellows doing less blocks than the average resident at my program. Just food for thought.