Cardiology

[clc8503]

I just started shadowing a Cardiologist a few weeks ago and have since been fascinated with the profession. Since Internal Medicine is very common among DOs, is Cardiology as well?
-just curious

Thanks,
Caraway

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[(nicedream)]

I just started shadowing a Cardiologist a few weeks ago and have since been fascinated with the profession. Since Internal Medicine is very common among DOs, is Cardiology as well?
-just curious

Thanks,
Caraway

Internal Medicine is not "very common" among DOs. It's actually one of the fields DO's are most under-represented in (viewing percentage of that specialty made up of DOs compared to total physicians made up of DOs - 2% vs. 5%). The most popular residency with DOs is FP (40%). On the other hand, DO's are about equally represented in cardiology (3% of cardiologists are DOs).
In other words, a higher proportion of cardiologists are DOs than internists.

 

[jdaasbo]

Numbers and statistics are not really useful I feel in this matter. If you are a DO applying for cardiology fellowship you will certainly be one of a very few. My year of application, there were 706 fellowship positions offered through the match, 14 of those went to DOs. I have no idea how many applied (my point is to point out that you will be a minority, not to imply that the odds are stacked against you). If this is what you want to do with your life, then numbers dont matter. I got bitten by the cardiology bug as an MS I and I was fortunate enough to have a few DO cardiologists as mentors. Go for it. Work your ass off, get the best medicine residency that you can, do as much research in cardiology as you can, submit abstracts, and try to get published.

 

[fullefect1]

Numbers and statistics are not really useful I feel in this matter. If you are a DO applying for cardiology fellowship you will certainly be one of a very few. My year of application, there were 706 fellowship positions offered through the match, 14 of those went to DOs. I have no idea how many applied (my point is to point out that you will be a minority, not to imply that the odds are stacked against you). If this is what you want to do with your life, then numbers dont matter. I got bitten by the cardiology bug as an MS I and I was fortunate enough to have a few DO cardiologists as mentors. Go for it. Work your ass off, get the best medicine residency that you can, do as much research in cardiology as you can, submit abstracts, and try to get published.

Are there any cardiology fellowships just for DO's?

 

[Nate]

Sure are, UMDNJ has some 🙂
http://som.umdnj.edu/gme/opti04.htm

 

[(nicedream)]

Numbers and statistics are not really useful I feel in this matter. If you are a DO applying for cardiology fellowship you will certainly be one of a very few. My year of application, there were 706 fellowship positions offered through the match, 14 of those went to DOs. I have no idea how many applied (my point is to point out that you will be a minority, not to imply that the odds are stacked against you). If this is what you want to do with your life, then numbers dont matter. I got bitten by the cardiology bug as an MS I and I was fortunate enough to have a few DO cardiologists as mentors. Go for it. Work your ass off, get the best medicine residency that you can, do as much research in cardiology as you can, submit abstracts, and try to get published.

As a DO you will be a minority in every field. And as a cardiologist you will be a minority as a physician. I think it is significant that DO's are statistically equally represented in cardiology.
Also, there are I believe 15 DO cardiology residencies.

 

[mandar]

As a DO you will be a minority in every field. And as a cardiologist you will be a minority as a physician. I think it is significant that DO's are statistically equally represented in cardiology.
Also, there are I believe 15 DO cardiology residencies.

Is it true that Cardiology has become a pretty tough fellowship, for both allopaths and osteopaths, to get into in last 5 years due to new fields like interventional cardiology but most of the other fellowships in IM are pretty easy??

 

[TraumaDR]

Grandview Hospital in Dayton, OH will be starting a cardiology this coming year. http://www.ketthealth.com/gvmeded/CardiologyHome.cfm

I want to echo what was stated earlier. If you want to go into a field like cardiology, which is very competitive, make sure you do research and spend time at that facility. I have had several cardiologists tell me that this is almost a necessity. Best of luck to you in the future!

 

[jdaasbo]

GI and cardiology are by far the hardest to get into. After this, moderately competitive ones are heme/onc, pulm/critical care, nephrology. Less competitive ones are rheum, ID, geriatrics.

That said, all of them are becoming more competitive as fewer people want to do primary care internal medicine. Research is a requirement in order to be a starter for any GI or cards fellowship program. For the middle of the ground to better moderately competitive specialties (pulm, heme/once, etc) research is a very good idea. These are guidelines, and in general in order to competitive for the best programs in a certain specialty, research is a very good idea. Going to a non university IM program is a big handicap, especially for GI and cards.