best places for rheumatology

[sport29883]

Can someone give a basic idea of the good places for a rheumatology fellowship (predominantly research oriented)? I saw a thread for pulmonary critical care like this, but nothing for rheumatology or nephrology. Inputs appreciated. Thanks

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[JHopRevisit]

It's hard to do rankings on the level of fellowship. Programs are small enough that personalities matter a lot. In addition, the field is diverse enough that if you happen to have a guru or the patient population for a particular condition, your program might skew more to that condition than others. All that being said, a few programs got shout-outs in a previous thread on the subject:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=110024

US News also ranks programs, that's probably as close to a solid ranking as you're gonna get. The methodology is completely dependent on a survey. As silly as US News is, it probably beats the hearsay and gossip you're gonna get on this site.
http://www.usnews.com/directories/hospitals/index_html/specialty+REPRHEU/

 

[sport29883]

thanks man for both the threads..really appreciate it. I agree about the US news thing..but with nothing else being said on the forum, its at least forms some basis!