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What are your stats? DO or MD? Speciality? Research? I would really appreciate it as I would be applying next year
I'm a DO, anesthesia, with 9 interview invites currently.
Your best bet is to reach out to fellow neuro collegues on their success with matching pain fellowship. That will be the biggest challenge, not the DO part. I'm at a large academic anesthesia program and have had no issues with being a DO so far in this application process.
Meh step scores, MD, PM&R, minimal research. I got 4 interviews total (3 outside of home program). My chances of matching aren't great but I'm inclined to not reapply. I like inpatient rehab and could see myself happy doing that.
Hope you get a few more invites. Did you apply broadly?
WYM?
Pain medicine is simply less competitive, likely from a lot less anesthesia applicants combined with PDs not considering non "core" specialties (psych, neurology, EM, etc). General market is hot so a lot less interest from anesthesia folk. Tough to say no to 500k+ starting salary, 8-10+ vacations.. i think someone calculated the opportunity cost of 1 year fellowship vs doing general projected over one's career is in the millions. PDs probably also all interviewed the same batch of anesthesia/PMR residents.
>60 spots open amongst >30 programs unfilled including programs like UVA, Cleveland Clinic, Dartmouth, Texas Tech (did not fill any spots), etc etc
Yep. Last year there was about 19 unfilled seats I think. Fellowship programs keep expanding too
probably. because historically it was 75% match rate. very competitive
Are you currently practicing pain? How's the market like? Any advice someone in anesthesia who wants to pursue pain? tia.
