Fellowship Reviews

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With fellowships becoming more popular in our profession and the mysteries that surround them. I figure it would be a good idea to have a thread so people can speak about their fellowship experiences and others can get an insight into what each fellowship is like. Feel free to PM with your review if you want to remain anonymous.

Fellowship Name:

General Program/Hospital Info:

Attendings:

Didactics:

OR Experience:

Clinic Experience:

Research Opportunities:

Lifestyle:

Pros:

Cons:

Overall Conclusion:

 

[New York Podiatrist]

Fellowship Name: Coney Island New York City Hospital Health and Hospital Corporation (CIH NYCHHC)

General Program/Hospital Info: Coney Island New York City Hospital Health and Hospital Corporation (CIH NYCHHC) 2601 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11235 718.616.3000

Attending: Dr. Yury Rotshteyn; Dr. Ilya Shnitser; Dr. Arthur Passik.

Didactic: Once a week on Thursdays for about 1-3 hours. Monthly saw bones or more hands on workshops ( suture, hand ties, hardware, ORIF, mastectomies, surgical techniques, etc) PRESENTs and other various didactic tools.

OR Experience: OR day is Thursday average 4-6 cases. Level 2 trauma with 0-5 add ons a week. Residents also cover outside ASUs with variable number of cases.

Clinic Experience: M, T, W, & F are full clinic days. ~60 patients booked about ~40 show up. Extensive wound care heavy on T/W patients. Extensive exposure to CTPs.

Research Opportunities: Has dedicated research department and IRB process. Fellows must produce research project and present at research day in May/June at end of fellowship. Key is to get IRB approval early in year, essentially right when you start to make it smooth.

Lifestyle: Fellows take 24 hour call up to twice a week during weekdays.

Pros: Excellent wound care product exposure. High patient volume. Highly supportive leadership.

Cons: None identified.

Overall Conclusion: Great fellowship for DPM that wants exposure to a large number and variety of wounds and products. Meshes well as a treatment paradigm for private office adaptation. Highly recommend for hard working PGY3 resident that would like to transition to lucrative private practice.

 

[Sartorius P.O.D.]

Overall Conclusion: Great fellowship for DPM that wants exposure to a large number and variety of wounds and products. Meshes well as a treatment paradigm for private office adaptation. Highly recommend for hard working PGY3 resident that would like to transition to lucrative private practice.

This reads like PM news ad

 

[heybrother]

My wife is not a podiatrist. Has zero interest in podiatry.

Me: Here's a fellowship for you. Clinic M,T,W,F. 40-60 patients a day.
Her: Isn't that just, a job?

 

[GreenHousePub]

There needs to be a section discussing what happened to the previous grads ie: what jobs are they working at now?

 

[perforating_peroneal]

There needs to be a section discussing what happened to the previous grads ie: what jobs are they working at now?

I keep seeing ads for the ATP flight school pop up, might say screw this and go fly planes instead 🤣 (and no, I wasn’t a fellow here)

 

[CutsWithFury]

Fellowship Name: Coney Island New York City Hospital Health and Hospital Corporation (CIH NYCHHC)

General Program/Hospital Info: Coney Island New York City Hospital Health and Hospital Corporation (CIH NYCHHC) 2601 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11235 718.616.3000

Attending: Dr. Yury Rotshteyn; Dr. Ilya Shnitser; Dr. Arthur Passik.

Didactic: Once a week on Thursdays for about 1-3 hours. Monthly saw bones or more hands on workshops ( suture, hand ties, hardware, ORIF, mastectomies, surgical techniques, etc) PRESENTs and other various didactic tools.

OR Experience: OR day is Thursday average 4-6 cases. Level 2 trauma with 0-5 add ons a week. Residents also cover outside ASUs with variable number of cases.

Clinic Experience: M, T, W, & F are full clinic days. ~60 patients booked about ~40 show up. Extensive wound care heavy on T/W patients. Extensive exposure to CTPs.

Research Opportunities: Has dedicated research department and IRB process. Fellows must produce research project and present at research day in May/June at end of fellowship. Key is to get IRB approval early in year, essentially right when you start to make it smooth.

Lifestyle: Fellows take 24 hour call up to twice a week during weekdays.

Pros: Excellent wound care product exposure. High patient volume. Highly supportive leadership.

Cons: None identified.

Overall Conclusion: Great fellowship for DPM that wants exposure to a large number and variety of wounds and products. Meshes well as a treatment paradigm for private office adaptation. Highly recommend for hard working PGY3 resident that would like to transition to lucrative private practice.

Terrible. Fellows just do attending’s work and the attendings bill for it. Yup sounds about right.


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[air bud]

Fellowship Name: Coney Island New York City Hospital Health and Hospital Corporation (CIH NYCHHC)

General Program/Hospital Info: Coney Island New York City Hospital Health and Hospital Corporation (CIH NYCHHC) 2601 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11235 718.616.3000

Attending: Dr. Yury Rotshteyn; Dr. Ilya Shnitser; Dr. Arthur Passik.

Didactic: Once a week on Thursdays for about 1-3 hours. Monthly saw bones or more hands on workshops ( suture, hand ties, hardware, ORIF, mastectomies, surgical techniques, etc) PRESENTs and other various didactic tools.

OR Experience: OR day is Thursday average 4-6 cases. Level 2 trauma with 0-5 add ons a week. Residents also cover outside ASUs with variable number of cases.

Clinic Experience: M, T, W, & F are full clinic days. ~60 patients booked about ~40 show up. Extensive wound care heavy on T/W patients. Extensive exposure to CTPs.

Research Opportunities: Has dedicated research department and IRB process. Fellows must produce research project and present at research day in May/June at end of fellowship. Key is to get IRB approval early in year, essentially right when you start to make it smooth.

Lifestyle: Fellows take 24 hour call up to twice a week during weekdays.

Pros: Excellent wound care product exposure. High patient volume. Highly supportive leadership.

Cons: None identified.

Overall Conclusion: Great fellowship for DPM that wants exposure to a large number and variety of wounds and products. Meshes well as a treatment paradigm for private office adaptation. Highly recommend for hard working PGY3 resident that would like to transition to lucrative private practice.

Sounds like a nice residency

Anyone who does this fellowship is an idiot and wasting a year of your life. Get a job don't work for someone else for 60k

 

[air bud]

There needs to be a section discussing what happened to the previous grads ie: what jobs are they working at now?

absolutely. Then when you start seeing all the previous fellows who went to private practice it might make people question this. Even then, fellows will tell you it was worth it. Some of is because they feel more confident, but thats because they don't know the opposite traditional approach. The honest ones will tell you the first 6 months were worth it, but the last 6 they just wanted to get to work. Most will say it was worth it to save face and not look they largely wasted a year of their life.

 

[deleted1003403]

This reads like PM news ad

looks like an attending who needs cheap labor during a pandemic

 

[Sartorius P.O.D.]

Most will say it was worth it to save face and not look they largely wasted a year of their life.

Mostly this

Also is this "no identified cons" hidden gem of a fellowship accredited by anyone?

 

[GreenHousePub]

Mostly this

Also is this "no identified cons" hidden gem of a fellowship accredited by anyone?

You don't need any accreditation (not like accreditation would matter anyways). You don't want to miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity - do you?

Monthly saw bones or more hands on workshops ( suture, hand ties, hardware, ORIF, mastectomies, surgical techniques, etc) PRESENTs and other various didactic tools.

Why is the fellow excited about something that would be boring for 4th year students/1st year residents?

Excellent wound care product exposure. High patient volume

You can get the same experience going to a VA residency.

I heard the new york residencies were bad, but if this is a selling point - are they really that bad?

 

[DYK343]

Sounds like a nice residency

Anyone who does this fellowship is an idiot and wasting a year of your life. Get a job don't work for someone else for 60k

Sounds like a bad residency... (and even worse "fellowship")

 

[ExperiencedDPM]

Stay away. You can’t have a quality residency or fellowship without quality directors. In case I forgot to mention it, stay away.

As per other comments, this is free labor for the attendings.

By the way, did I mention to stay away?

Being proud of being a fellow there is analogous to being proud of being the thinnest person at fat camp.