There are plenty of programs to choose from in the East Coast in perspective of musculoskeletal medicine training including Spaulding, Kessler, Colum/Cornell, U Penn, MCV, and U Va. Although most of the times, sports medicine and mskltl med are lumped together for obvious reasons, physiatric perspective may be different from program to program. One program may focus on interventional spine while others may emphasize more traditiional primary care sports medicine. Now out of the programs where I interviewed, I felt Kessler was very good. Also although I ranked Col/Cornell low on my rank list, the availability to rotate through HSS was good. U penn, where I matched is also a great program for musculoskeletal med. U penn has a very strong MSK Med department with opportunity in interventional spine, acupuncture and intramuscular stimulation. They also have a very competitive fellowship in Spinal Therapeutics. While the other programs where I interviewed including Mt. Sinai, Temple, Thomas Jefferson, National, Johns Hopkins had good programs in rehabilitation, I felt they did not have as much exposure to MSK Med and interventional spine as the other programs which I have described above. Now the other programs I have listed including Spaulding, MCV, and U Va, are speculations of mine from reading Stinky and talking to other friends and interviewees.