I'm a DO student. I have two or three Internal Medicine programs I've interviewed with that are going to be tough to choose between but wanted your opinions on which programs would set me up best for cardiology fellowship. I have been dead set on cardiology for a while. My favorite rotations have been cards, the cardiologists have always impressed me, and I have pursued mostly cardiology research.
- Cleveland Clinic Akron General (my favorite so far despite not having cardiology fellowship - strong academics from what I can tell, CC name I think helps their residents get into big name fellowships)
- Largo Medical Center (>455 beds, heart transplant program with good ECMO and LVAD exposure as resident. Cards and Interventional Cards fellows).
- Ohio Health/Doctors Hospital (smaller hospital but also rotate at Riverside which is >1000 bed hospital. They have Cardiology fellows, most of whom come from IM resident pool)
- Brandon Regional (Near Tampa, like Largo, they're 438 bed size but have 25,000 admissions per year, 5th busiest ER in state, and cardiology fellowship. Weak in academics. Research/case reports are on me to start and write given there's little mentorship from attendings, according to a 1st yr resident anyway)
- Ochsner/LSU Shreveport (seems like a decent IM/cards program but not my preferred location)
- Texas Tech El Paso (seems like it'd be good volume given the area but I dont know Spanish so maybe less desirable to me).
Any insight you may be able to provide would be much appreciated as I am really struggling with how to rank my top 3-4 programs.
- Cleveland Clinic Akron General (my favorite so far despite not having cardiology fellowship - strong academics from what I can tell, CC name I think helps their residents get into big name fellowships)
- Largo Medical Center (>455 beds, heart transplant program with good ECMO and LVAD exposure as resident. Cards and Interventional Cards fellows).
- Ohio Health/Doctors Hospital (smaller hospital but also rotate at Riverside which is >1000 bed hospital. They have Cardiology fellows, most of whom come from IM resident pool)
- Brandon Regional (Near Tampa, like Largo, they're 438 bed size but have 25,000 admissions per year, 5th busiest ER in state, and cardiology fellowship. Weak in academics. Research/case reports are on me to start and write given there's little mentorship from attendings, according to a 1st yr resident anyway)
- Ochsner/LSU Shreveport (seems like a decent IM/cards program but not my preferred location)
- Texas Tech El Paso (seems like it'd be good volume given the area but I dont know Spanish so maybe less desirable to me).
Any insight you may be able to provide would be much appreciated as I am really struggling with how to rank my top 3-4 programs.
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. I feel as a DO I honestly have to maximize "chances of matching" versus being picky since Anti-DO bias is still unfortunately pervasive...
