Ranking
Started by march73
I only went to Emory and UTSW, please refer to my previous post about my impression of various programs. They are 2 very different programs with different visions.
Thanks Cards2012 for your input ,but I looked at your threads and its seems you have applied to the 4 yr scientific track in both program ,while I did apply to the 3 year clincal track,so i dont know if it applies to it too.
I was looking actually to have some help in ranking those places
thanks though
I was looking actually to have some help in ranking those places
thanks though
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No, I made it clear to the PD that I am only applying for the 3 year clinical program. I have done my fair share of research and I need some clinical training at this stage 🙂
Need help in deciding between Henry Ford vs U of Iowa.....
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U of Iowa is an amazing program from an academic perspective. EP seemed to be a little weak. Henry Ford is a very good CLINICAL cardiology program but does not offer research opportunities (in comparison to U of Iowa).
From my perspective, it is a no-brainer, it is U of Iowa but if you know you are going in to private practice and only want very good clinical training then Henry Ford may be a good choice too.
This is funny! I was working from my wife's computer and posted the reply above but it appeared under "endoscope".. 😕 It took me some time to realize who "endoscope" is!!
Hmm...
I am not really into research. Want to get a solid clinical training. However, i want to have the idea of getting into interventional or EP a possibility.
It really depends on what you want to do. If you want to do EP, then I wouldn't recommend going anywhere where they don't have many EP docs, or good EP training. You need someone to write you LOR's, etc. Same goes for interventional...some places do not have a busy cath lab. After
you interviewed at these places, you should have some idea about
these things, and probably be more up to date than some of us
already in fellowship.
as far as the other person's question, I think Iowa is more basic sciencey and probably more generally academic than Henry Ford (though don't know much about the latter). However, I don't know anything about the business of the cath or EP labs at Iowa. For example, if someone wants to do interventional fellowship then it makes no sense to go some place where the cath fellow is doing 1 or 2 cases a day on the cath rotation. Believe it or not, there are plenty of big-name (or semi big name) academic places where that happens. I'm not saying Iowa is like that b/c I actually don't know. I'm just giving a for-example. You need to have some clue about what you want to do before you can accurately rank programs. Not that you can't change your mind, but at least you should know whether you are more a basic science research kind of guy, versus clinical and/or clinical research,and maybe have an idea of 1 or 2 subspecialties you want to do (or that you want to do general cards, etc.). If you really have no clue, then I guess I would rank based on programs with no gaping holes in them (i.e. generally strong, or just not really weak in any one area).
you interviewed at these places, you should have some idea about
these things, and probably be more up to date than some of us
already in fellowship.
as far as the other person's question, I think Iowa is more basic sciencey and probably more generally academic than Henry Ford (though don't know much about the latter). However, I don't know anything about the business of the cath or EP labs at Iowa. For example, if someone wants to do interventional fellowship then it makes no sense to go some place where the cath fellow is doing 1 or 2 cases a day on the cath rotation. Believe it or not, there are plenty of big-name (or semi big name) academic places where that happens. I'm not saying Iowa is like that b/c I actually don't know. I'm just giving a for-example. You need to have some clue about what you want to do before you can accurately rank programs. Not that you can't change your mind, but at least you should know whether you are more a basic science research kind of guy, versus clinical and/or clinical research,and maybe have an idea of 1 or 2 subspecialties you want to do (or that you want to do general cards, etc.). If you really have no clue, then I guess I would rank based on programs with no gaping holes in them (i.e. generally strong, or just not really weak in any one area).
