fellowship competitivness

[anes]

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How do current applicants for cardiac anesthesia feel about securing a spot? Does it seem easier or harder that years past. (Now we have the match).

What kind of numbers are you guys seeing per fellowship spot .
At my university there is 1 spot for cards fellowship. They received around 25 applicants for that one spot.

Other bigger programs seem to interview between 4-6 candidates per spot. Is this average?

Ive been to a mid range cardiac spot with 5 spots, who interviewed a total of 20 candidates. Duke is interviewing 60 candidates for 15 positions.

Do theae numbers seem about right compared to previous years?

My program director said that because of the match a lot of us will get screwed (who otherwise wouldnt have). Any validity to that statement.

 

[radsgoal]

I'm extremely nervous, have 9 interviews but would like to rank 7 of them, preferably match into the top 4. No idea where that leaves me standing. No real way to know as I dont know how many of these interviewee slots are being covered by the same people (as in the pool may be relatively small but everyone is applying widely so it appears that programs are interviewing a lot more people). Personally, like I said...I have extreme apprehension but most people tell me I should be fine. Whatever. No way to know.

 

[okayplayer]

My home program (large NW program) is interviewing about 30 for 3 spots.

 

[IlDestriero]

We're interviewing 5 people per spot for the newish peds match. Though all of our spots are still not in the match. I think we did 6 per last year. I think we got more than 10 applicants per spot but we're a big program, so that's a lot of applications.
I still have to ask about the exact numbers from the last couple years.