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I knew someone who did that fellowship. Just checked their linkedin to see what they've been up to. It's a doozy. Lots of job hopping, lots of moving, longest postgrad stint was 2 years. First job after fellowship was in PP. Currently a private practice owner.
Not saying it'll happen to you but...
Not saying it'll happen to you but...
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Most of the people who post here regularly are not in favor of fellowships.
One of the things that is interesting to me about people who ask for help is that they often don't say why they are seeking said fellowship, opportunity etc. We don't know you and we don't know what you want or are aiming for so how could we guide you.
Looks like they just started 3rd year of residency
Maybe they're just feeling it out. Probably not job searching yet
Some fellowships make you better. I know for a fact that my fellowship got me my current hospital job because the hiring committee was super interested in it and asked a ton of questions about it and later told me that it was a deciding factor. It was a well-respected fellowship in our field so it was worth it to me because it did make me better- even though I did a "top tier" residency (in our profession). On that same note, there's no way that anyone outside of podiatry knows anything about our fellowships. Would I have done a terrible one just for the line on my CV at the time? No way. Would I have a terrible one if I knew at the time just having done one would later be a deciding factor in hiring me for a hospital job that I really love now and feel fortunate to have? Absolutely. All of that having been said, I still destroyed my mental well being and physical health in a PP job after training. I think that its still rare to land a great job out of training and very few pods come out of training knowing how or being good at practicing in the real world.
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Fellowships are great. Podiatry fellowships, unfortunately, are not. Too many are structured as financial schemes disguised as advanced training. The fellow becomes cheap labor, managing postoperative and global period patients while freeing the director to see new, revenue generating patients. That is not a fellowship. In a legitimate academic fellowship, i.e. orthopedics, the fellow develops surgical expertise, builds meaningful clinical volume, generate cases for boards and receives structured education and mentorship. If the primary beneficiary of the fellowship is the director’s bottom line rather than the fellow’s education, it is exploitation, not training.
And nobody is talking about it.
And nobody is talking about it.
Recommend mods lock this thread. It was specific to the USC fellowship and responses are about fellowships in general, which already has threads ad nauseum. Plus the OP's account is deleted.
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