Peds fellowship

[corabrickdog]

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I know this isint the best place to post this but I wanted to post here first before going to pediatrics forum. But does anyone know how hard is it to get into peds fellowship? And if so how hard/how competitive is it (which I'm sure it is)? Any feed back would be great!
Thanks! 😀

 

[BABSstudent]

Worry about getting into medical school first. Then after doing residency, you can decide if going after a fellowship is worth it.

 

[mmmcdowe]

Depends on what you mean. A pediatric residency is not super competitive, but if you want to be, say, a pediatric surgeon, then you do a residency in surgery and a fellowship in pediatric surgery. That would be potentially more difficult.

 

[ComradeDoktor]

Let me clear some things up for you
Residency: What you do immediately after medical school. This is what you specialize in. There are residencies in pediatrics.
Fellowship: What you do after residency. This is what you subspecialize in.

There are fellowships that you can do after a pediatrics residency to become a neonatologist, a pediatric cardiologist, etc. Most are not that competitive because with a few exceptions, pediatric subspecialists don't make that much more than pediatricians who don't subspecialize.

There are also pediatric fellowships you can do after completing a residency in another field of medicine. For example, you could do a two-year pediatric surgery fellowship after completing a general surgery residency. These also vary. Pediatric general surgery is considered an extremely competitive fellowship. Other specialties' pediatric fellowships may not be.

 

[J-Rad]

peds em and peds cardiology are the only competitive peds subs with neonatology a little less so (this excludes peds to allergy since AI is not an ABP sub, rather, its own competitive field). All others are not very competitive. pediatric surgical specialties are also excluded.

 

[member19454]

does anyone know how to find which residencies match fellows to which programs?

 

[mmmcdowe]

does anyone know how to find which residencies match fellows to which programs?

Depends on the specialty, Some have better lists than others available.