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Before its suggested, yes I am talking to people in my program too but am hoping to get some more perspective too.
So, I'm a CA3, going to do CCM at my current place next year. Now I am looking at applying for CT to follow that. We have a program here but don't want to feel 100% inbred and am looking to go elsewhere for that year. So my questions for those who have done CT are:
1.) what (besides volume) did you feel was important in evaluating programs
2.) doing own cases vs supervising... I can see benefit for both but my gut tells me I'd like to be somewhere with a mix tilted towards doing own cases. How did y'all address this dichotomy?
3.) I've done a few transplants (double and single lungs as well as hearts), I know I enjoy these. How important is having a higher volume of these specific cases? I would extrapolate this to how important is a large volume of any individual case?
4.) what extras did you feel to be important? (Electives, meetings, formal TEE courses, etc)
Thanks in advance, and feel free to PM or move to private forum if needed.
-Eric
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So, I'm a CA3, going to do CCM at my current place next year. Now I am looking at applying for CT to follow that. We have a program here but don't want to feel 100% inbred and am looking to go elsewhere for that year. So my questions for those who have done CT are:
1.) what (besides volume) did you feel was important in evaluating programs
2.) doing own cases vs supervising... I can see benefit for both but my gut tells me I'd like to be somewhere with a mix tilted towards doing own cases. How did y'all address this dichotomy?
3.) I've done a few transplants (double and single lungs as well as hearts), I know I enjoy these. How important is having a higher volume of these specific cases? I would extrapolate this to how important is a large volume of any individual case?
4.) what extras did you feel to be important? (Electives, meetings, formal TEE courses, etc)
Thanks in advance, and feel free to PM or move to private forum if needed.
-Eric
Sent from my iPhone using SDN mobile app