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I know I want to do cards at this point, and have interviewed at a few programs that have every subspecialty fellowship.

My question is, what factors should I look for in a residency program to help me later when I apply for fellowship? I want to have the best chances for matching after residency and wanted to find out what type of programs allow for this. Thanks!
 
I know I want to do cards at this point, and have interviewed at a few programs that have every subspecialty fellowship.

My question is, what factors should I look for in a residency program to help me later when I apply for fellowship? I want to have the best chances for matching after residency and wanted to find out what type of programs allow for this. Thanks!

Record of fellowship placement, research opportunities, strength of training and reputation, how you fit in, etc

Basically you want to come out with strong letters and research to show for your time there
 
Record of fellowship placement, research opportunities, strength of training and reputation, how you fit in, etc

Basically you want to come out with strong letters and research to show for your time there

What's the best site to use for looking up records of fellowship sites? I've used docimity and it gives you a ranking based on the subspecialty you want to enter. Would you say that's the best way?
 
a lot of the webpages for individual programs will have a page or a PDF about fellowship matching

some will list each graduating residency class member that matched a to a fellowship and where they matched to

there's no central repository, you have to find out program by program
 
What's the best site to use for looking up records of fellowship sites? I've used docimity and it gives you a ranking based on the subspecialty you want to enter. Would you say that's the best way?

The Doximity rankings are junk IMO

Sometimes individual residency sites have where their graduates went into fellowship but there is no centralized ranking database
 
What's the best site to use for looking up records of fellowship sites? I've used docimity and it gives you a ranking based on the subspecialty you want to enter. Would you say that's the best way?

As those above say, go to the residency programs' websites for info on their fellowship matches. For those who don't have it on their website, you should have been given this info at the time of your interview.

The other bit you then need is to figure out how to use the fellowship match info, i.e. how do you know which cards fellowship programs are highly regarded. For cards, the programs that prepare you for academic medicine can be quite different from the ones that train you for say private practice in interventional. (And you have the perennial problem in interpreting match lists - many of the matches are driven by individual location preferences rather than desire for going to the most prestigious academic name. So only pay attention to significant differences in match lists.)

The cards forum will give you info on reputations of various fellowship programs. Here are some threads I found useful:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/top-cardiology-programs-kind-of.744515/
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/top-cardiology-program-rankings.936757/
Post #38 onwards in http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/2012-fellowship-match.970591/#post-13474668
 
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