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Anyone has insight about Aurora?
UT Houston seemed to be really busy, minimal elective time, 11 Fellows a year, seemed main emphasis on HF, robust training, very good attendings, good sub specialties. They have night float, but still have a complicated call system as they have too many hospitalsany insight regarding ochsner clinic, UT houston programs?
Anybody have any input about Nassau university?
Wow how is that acgme approved to be a fellowship..I haven’t interviewed there yet, but I’ve heard bad things from someone here who has. I’ll defer to him to explain in detail, but in summary...
- only 2 interviews (one with Chief and faculty). Didn’t meet with PD.
- low volumes
- asked uncomfortable questions
- no inhouse interventionalist so no STEMI on site
- one cath lab only that looks empty and rarely used
- rotate at outside hospital for cath numbers
- lower pay scale in area with high cost of living
Overall not very encouraging
Wow how is that acgme approved to be a fellowship..
Hey guys
I am new in this forum I wish I knew it before it has very useful information.
need advice on ranking: I am probably going to be doing a mix of private plus some academic and want to do interventional/structural fellowship I would like to do research during fellowship but unlikely after fellowship mainly to be able to get into interventional fellowship:
Mayo Rochester, Methodist Houston, Uni of Cincinnati, Uni of Arizona Phoenix, Michigan State Uni E. Lansing, Uni of Kansas, Uni of Arkansas, Uni of Tennessee, Lahey Clinic, Uni of Buffalo.
All the best for everybody
Hey guys
I am new in this forum I wish I knew it before it has very useful information.
need advice on ranking: I am probably going to be doing a mix of private plus some academic and want to do interventional/structural fellowship I would like to do research during fellowship but unlikely after fellowship mainly to be able to get into interventional fellowship:
Mayo Rochester, Methodist Houston, Uni of Cincinnati, Uni of Arizona Phoenix, Michigan State Uni E. Lansing, Uni of Kansas, Uni of Arkansas, Uni of Tennessee, Lahey Clinic, Uni of Buffalo.
All the best for everybody
Which one is better, Mayo Arizona vs University of Kentucky Lexington? Future career goal is academic, subspecialty undecided. Thanks.
Mayo Roch (less hands-on, most academic, heavy research emphasis), Methodist and UK (assuming that this is the MidAmerica affilitate) stand out for structural/interventional training. UArizona with Lotun et al also has a decent program.
You're joking right? Mayo Rochester > the others. Are you a Mayo IM resident? The programs you mentioned are in different stratospheres so it is a bit surprising this was your interview list. Full disclosure: I don't know much about the other programs you mentioned.
Unrelated to this forum, what’s the best source for ABIM? Medstudy or MKSAp?
How do you rank the following programs, if you're interested in Interventional Cardiology:
UT Health
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Methodist
Texas Heart Institute
Thomas Jefferson, PA
Mount Sinai- Clinical Track
Montefiore
U Mass
Cooper Univ
Tufts Univ
Univ of Wisconsin
Interested in private practice, general vs. EP.
CCF
Wake
Case Western/UH
MUSC
UNC
Wisconsin
Michigan
Henry Ford
Beaumont
Ohio St
Texas Heart
Need some advice-- I've only gotten a few interviews and one of them is at this newly accredited program at Nassau. The program has a lot of red flags as mentioned above. Unfortunately, I still feel like I should rank it to give me the best chance of matching somewhere. Any inputs?
Need some advice-- I've only gotten a few interviews and one of them is at this newly accredited program at Nassau. The program has a lot of red flags as mentioned above. Unfortunately, I still feel like I should rank it to give me the best chance of matching somewhere. Any inputs?
Can you stomach 3 years there to be a cardiologist? If yes, then you’d be foolish not to rank them given how competitive the field is. I imagine if you had so few interviews that you’re not the strongest applicant, and must make the best of your station. I’m in the same boat, and am ranking all the programs.
Can you stomach 3 years there to be a cardiologist? If yes, then you’d be foolish not to rank them given how competitive the field is. I imagine if you had so few interviews that you’re not the strongest applicant, and must make the best of your station. I’m in the same boat, and am ranking all the programs.
It’s not just about becoming a cardiologist. You want to train at a place that will make you ready for the real world. So, the quality of training is important and it sometimes may be worth doing 1-2 years of “something else” to make an application more competitive.
Personally i’d rather be a “happy hospitalist” than be a miserable fellow making less than 1/4 of the money and being at a place where I don’t want to be.
I think an applicant should always be satisfied with their rank list and only rank a program if they think they will be OK going there. That’s my personal take on it.
It’s not just about becoming a cardiologist. You want to train at a place that will make you ready for the real world. So, the quality of training is important and it sometimes may be worth doing 1-2 years of “something else” to make an application more competitive.
Personally i’d rather be a “happy hospitalist” than be a miserable fellow making less than 1/4 of the money and being at a place where I don’t want to be.
I think an applicant should always be satisfied with their rank list and only rank a program if they think they will be OK going there. That’s my personal take on it.
How good of a cardiologist you are is a small part dependent on what program you graduate from, but much much more dependent on who you are as a person, how proactive you are in studying, learning about pathology. Training is only temporary (3 yrs), but your career is lifelong, and you have a lifelong opportunity to continue to learn. It would be a grave mistake to not rank a program (despite how crappy it is), in the event that you do not match and would have matched if you ranked it.
Are you an AMG? I ask because this is a way of thinking that I've not often encountered with FMGs. Most FMGs have clawed and fought their way back into the medical system. They rotated at horribly understaffed and overpopulated hospitals, applied to over 100 programs for a handful of interviews, and gladly matched at "low-tier" community programs all for the chance to be physicians. For an FMG to then get into a specialty as competitive as cardiology, one where the mere mention of their medical school excludes them from many programs, is a testament to their hunger and drive and self-learning. That's why I'd be surprised for them to shoot themselves in the foot for the chance of a better program when simply getting into cardiology is their final hurdle.
I am an IMG. I just think an applicant should be satisfied with his/her rank list regardless of what it takes. That's all. Every person is different. Like I said, I am not being unreasonable and the significant majority of cardiology fellowships are pretty good (> 90 %). I will be happy wherever I match on my list. If i had one program on my list that I really didn't like, I probably wouldn't rank it and you can argue that's committing career suicide.
I might not have the same perspective as some IMGs because I’m an AMG. However, I do think any Cardiology program is better than Hospitalist medicine but that’s just because I can’t stand being a hospitalist. I am ranking even the Cards programs I was not impressed with for that reason. In the end regardless of how crappy the program is the self drive and learning is the bigger component of the equation.
I’m assuming the program you are talking about is no where near the program mentioned earlier. That kind of program is what I meant really and there are less than 10 of those. So that doesn’t really apply to my statement.
If you had that one program on your rank list (alone), what would you do? That’s my point... i don’t think there is a right or wrong answer really just a personal preference.
Hi guys, would appreciate your input in ranking these programs... Future plans: Interventional Cardiology
UT Houston
Aurora
Univ of Kansas
Univ of Maryland
Med college of Wisconsin
Rush
Univ of Arizona Phoenix
So what are the final impressions on the UTHealth. It is busy for sure, but most other programs throughout the country are as well. I didn't get an impression that it was outrageously busy like never heard of situation. Overall fellows seemed to have really good numbers (unlike what was previously mentioned in a post) and the faculty and overall environment looked friendly during the interview. Seemed to have good exposure to structural interventions and complex cases overall. Thoughts ?
Future Plan: Interventional Cardiology (PP vs. Academics). How would you rank following programs?
UMich, UCLA, UCSF, Vanderbilt, Mount Sinai- Academic Track, Emory, Ohio State, Brown, UMass
Depends on your other options. One point though, unrelated to UT but in general "good numbers" is meaningless w/o context. One can have large cath numbers but never truly been 1st operator and/or did any complex cases, or large echo numbers but only do simple echos, etc.
Go with your gut, mostly solid programs, but I'd put Umass dead last. For academics, go wherever will support your interests best. For PP interventional, it depends, but generally can't go wrong with most of them. UCLA isn't known for interventional, doing 4th year at kaiser LA or scripps would be an option. Same with UCSF and Brown. Mt Sinai of course is known for interventional, but it seems many don't stick around and I know the 4th yrs get worked hard.
I am looking at it from perspective of good quality procedures and building future towards intervention and structural. And also overall culture of the program and the hype about UTHealth being unhealthily crazy busy(healthy busy is fine); where it gets to your point of quality not just quantity. Others top on my list are UTSW, UT San Antonio and Aurora. Thanks
I have similar choices and making decisions with similar long term plans. Whats your impression of Aurora?