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Sorry, I'm unaware of any A/I fellows or faculty who are on SDN. Why don't you ask some to join.🙂
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For the sake of not making a duplicate thread, maybe you should close this one and inquire in the Internal Medicine forums. They seem to be a little more dynamic than the Peds forums and might increase your odds of finding an answer (and it's the same fellowship whether you're coming from IM, Peds, or Med-Peds).
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I am currently applying to peds residency. Cards and A/I are the fellowships that I am interested in. It seems like it would be most benificial to go to a bigger program with a good A/I department if that is a fellowship that I am interested in. I have interviews at some good programs with and without an A/I dept. Anyone with any thoughts please let me know. Thanks.
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I just want to maximize my chances of matching in a good A/I fellowship. I know people match at other fellowships all of the time, probably more often that at their home institutions, but is seems like A/I may be a differnt ballgame because of how competitive it is. There are some smaller very solid peds residencies that I am looking at, but they just don't have much of an A/I department at all. Again, any comments would be appreciated.
I am in a similar situation, but now am an intern.
One of the programs I really was interested in had an A/I department (with some well-known faculty), but they had no fellowship...this seemed like a big drawback.
So my current program has both a ton of cards cases and a (relatively) large A/I section with a program taking 2 fellows/year in the peds track. There are adult-trained fellows also and also an AI/Rheum fellowship with cross-training in all of them.
The AI fellows here also do BMT, so there's some Heme/Onc overlap as well.
IMHO, it's nice to be a resident in a program that has a fellowship and is known to retain trainees for the fellowship...but it's not essential. Of course it's great to be at a program with lots of volume of immunodeficiencies to learn from, but the drawback is it's a very large program and so may not have that "close-knit family" feel that some are looking for...
Good luck!
One of the programs I really was interested in had an A/I department (with some well-known faculty), but they had no fellowship...this seemed like a big drawback.
So my current program has both a ton of cards cases and a (relatively) large A/I section with a program taking 2 fellows/year in the peds track. There are adult-trained fellows also and also an AI/Rheum fellowship with cross-training in all of them.
The AI fellows here also do BMT, so there's some Heme/Onc overlap as well.
IMHO, it's nice to be a resident in a program that has a fellowship and is known to retain trainees for the fellowship...but it's not essential. Of course it's great to be at a program with lots of volume of immunodeficiencies to learn from, but the drawback is it's a very large program and so may not have that "close-knit family" feel that some are looking for...
Good luck!
