2025 Movement Fellowship Application Thread

[neuron133]

Thought this could be a good place to ask questions regarding SF match, posting interview data, and general questions for the 2025 Movement Fellowship Positions

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[Thama]

Remember that not all movement positions are within the match. SF match covers the majority of good programs but it isn't a comprehensive list.

 

[DrSatan]

Also remember that some programs join the Match late and you may not notice if you do not check later (looking at you UChicago).

 

[Captain_Falcon]

Thoughts on UIowa and MCW??

 

[DrStephenStrange]

Coming to the end of 2nd year now, and I’ve been eyeing Movement, but I am not entirely sure whether I really want to do it or not. Fellowship applications are in just a few months. I have a few elective blocks early 3rd year, but my program does not offer good exposure to that subspecialty. Should I plan some “auditions” in Movement during those months? Or is that not recommended? Should I seek for more exposure through some other means outside of actual fellowship programs?

 

[s5260205]

Coming to the end of 2nd year now, and I’ve been eyeing Movement, but I am not entirely sure whether I really want to do it or not. Fellowship applications are in just a few months. I have a few elective blocks early 3rd year, but my program does not offer good exposure to that subspecialty. Should I plan some “auditions” in Movement during those months? Or is that not recommended? Should I seek for more exposure through some other means outside of actual fellowship programs?

Depends on if your program has any movement disorders specialist and ideally someone who does botulinum toxin injections and deep brain stimulation programming. If there are some, I would recommend staying in home program as they may already know you, and it would great that at least one letter is from a movement disorders specialist with whom you have worked. That said, if there is not as much movement disorders presence in your hospital, then audition would be ideal, though audition can be risky if you somehow pissed someone off at the audition.

Also, movement disorders is one of the later ones in terms of application cycle (beginning March of PGY-3 with results by September of PGY-4). You should be mindful of the other subspecialty match cycle in case you decide not to pursue it.

 

[Thama]

Coming to the end of 2nd year now, and I’ve been eyeing Movement, but I am not entirely sure whether I really want to do it or not. Fellowship applications are in just a few months. I have a few elective blocks early 3rd year, but my program does not offer good exposure to that subspecialty. Should I plan some “auditions” in Movement during those months? Or is that not recommended? Should I seek for more exposure through some other means outside of actual fellowship programs?

Definitely a good idea to work directly with a movement subspecialist before committing to a fellowship in the field.

 

[neuron133]

Anyone know when programs typically send out interview invites? Feel like radio silence over here and I applied in early March..

 

[Choreatic arthritis]

Anyone know when programs typically send out interview invites? Feel like radio silence over here and I applied in early March..

I applied in late March, received invites from about 80% of places I applied to now, with 1 rejection (it was a reach program anyways). Still waiting to hear back from the others, although I'm not sure if ghosting is common in the field like it was for residency applications?

 

[Choreatic arthritis]

Coming to the end of 2nd year now, and I’ve been eyeing Movement, but I am not entirely sure whether I really want to do it or not. Fellowship applications are in just a few months. I have a few elective blocks early 3rd year, but my program does not offer good exposure to that subspecialty. Should I plan some “auditions” in Movement during those months? Or is that not recommended? Should I seek for more exposure through some other means outside of actual fellowship programs?

Depends on what you define as "good exposure." I had 2 movement disorders attendings in my program. I worked with both, and vibed with both of them, but one in particular took a lot of trust in me and so I got to spend more time with them. I did not have any advanced exposure (intra-op assessments, multidisciplinary clinics, DBS conferences, etc.) or anything like that. But I still greatly enjoyed even the bread and butter tremor, Parkinsonism cases, etc and that is what intiailly attracted to me to the field.

I would say that you should at the minimum have some exposure to DBS programming and tag along with attendings for their injection clinic days, just so you have things to also talk about during the interview trail and you can ask more targeted questions, in addition to having had a taste of some of that prior to commiting to the field. If your program does not have that available, then definitely consider audition rotations outside.