How to best prepare for Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship during Anesthesiology Residency

[pasta_water1]

Newly matched MS4 here with an interest in adult cardiac anesthesia fellowship. I am lucky to have matched into a strong program that does heart/lung/liver transplant as well has an in house cardiac anesthesia fellowship program. However, the program is only regionally well known in the Midwest. I am also a DO graduate who did about average on step 2.

How much do either have an impact on trying to match into a highly ranked institution? I know that doing well on ITE is important but is there anything else that I can do to help my future application?

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[BlueRug]

Don't focus on cardiac now. Walk before you can run. Get the basics mastered first.

Arrive early, stay late. Work hard. Get a good reputation at your institution. Crush ITEs, Basic top 10% is a bonus, and look for a mentor end of intern year or at least 6 months into CA-1 year. If you have a fellowship program, reach out to the PD to make it known you are interested in working with their fellows to help with papers/research projects. Seek out a mentor after showing them you are willing to put in the work.

SCA conference/ASA conference for networking doesn't hurt.

 

[CopaceticOne]

Step 1 - Get through intern year without being a problem resident.

 

[Tarsal-Tunnel]

How do you avoid being a problem resident? I haven't had any clinical rotations since February and I fear I'm losing a lot of knowledge. I try reading a bit every day but it's just not sticking without the actual clinical experience to apply it with.

 

[CopaceticOne]

How do you avoid being a problem resident? I haven't had any clinical rotations since February and I fear I'm losing a lot of knowledge. I try reading a bit every day but it's just not sticking without the actual clinical experience to apply it with.

Show up on time, do the work assigned to you, answer your pages / emails in a timely manner, don’t outwardly complain.

And in your down time study & read. No one is going to force feed information anymore like they do in class. You’ll have to go out and really do independent learning.