Pain fellowship question

[Green Grass]

What programs have the best interventional experience? Both numbers and teaching?

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[paintrain]

The pain fellowship review thread discusses this (http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/pain-fellowship-reviews.144647/).

There are some programs that are very interventional but poor at teaching, and vice versa.

When considering both, off the top of my head, I'd look into places like BWH, Mayo, BIDMC, CCF, UCLA.

 

[freddydpt]

Honestly, I had a phenomenal experience at Penn for both interventional and teaching experience.

 

[Green Grass]

Thanks! Keep the responses coming.

 

[Green Grass]

Rush

How are the other Chicago programs?

 

[BobBarker]

I had a good friend go through Cook. I think he was happy with everything. He made a lot of friends there quickly. I went up and hung out with them one weekend for a stim course. I know he is planning on doing his own stim implants and did a lot of vertebroplasty.

 

[Green Grass]

I had a good friend go through Cook. I think he was happy with everything. He made a lot of friends there quickly. I went up and hung out with them one weekend for a stim course. I know he is planning on doing his own stim implants and did a lot of vertebroplasty.

Thanks. Appreciate it.

 

[painpainpain]

I had a good friend go through Cook. I think he was happy with everything. He made a lot of friends there quickly. I went up and hung out with them one weekend for a stim course. I know he is planning on doing his own stim implants and did a lot of vertebroplasty.

went to cook for an interview this year. not much volume at all. only plus was they did some cement procedures.

 

[paintrain]

How are the other Chicago programs?

Rush appears the most interventional of all the Chicago programs. They work very hard there but the fellows come out with good training. I think the didactics suffer because they are so focused on production. I believe the best balance between interventions and teaching is Northwestern. And their facilities are amazing. Rush also built a new hospital in the past few years but their location is not as great as Northwestern's. The vibe/culture is also much better at Northwestern and their fellows appeared happier in general. UChicago is good but not worth the effort unless you're from UChicago. They only have 2 spots and have taken internal candidates the past 5 years. UIC is good for bread and butter.

 

[BobBarker]

I would trade doing less LESIs for vplasty or kypho training. There are many programs where fellows get zero exposure to kypho. I had adequate exposure but nothing too substantial and have probably done twice as many in 3 months on the job than I did in fellowship.

 

[Green Grass]

Rush appears the most interventional of all the Chicago programs. They work very hard there but the fellows come out with good training. I think the didactics suffer because they are so focused on production. I believe the best balance between interventions and teaching is Northwestern. And their facilities are amazing. Rush also built a new hospital in the past few years but their location is not as great as Northwestern's. The vibe/culture is also much better at Northwestern and their fellows appeared happier in general. UChicago is good but not worth the effort unless you're from UChicago. They only have 2 spots and have taken internal candidates the past 5 years. UIC is good for bread and butter.

Awesome. Thanks.