what makes applicants competitive for fellowships?

[hazelton]

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for example we hear allergy/immuno is most competitive in internal med, but what would make that applicant better than say someone applying for endocrinology or nephrology? when we say fellowships are competitive, what does that mean? it seems from the match rates that endo, nephrology, cards, gi and a/i as well as other im fellowships all match at around 70-80% so how do you know that cards/gi/allergy are most competitive?

 

[Nepsap]

For people who are interested in nephrology there is good news and bad news.
The good news is the applicant this year 2012 is 60 percent less and all program are worried if they can fill all the position and the reason and the bad news is the future for nephrology job is the lowest with expected salary way less than hospitalist around 120k-140k with long hours of work which most after finishing nephrology are going back to hospitalsit.for those applying in nephrology please now this fact and currently I am doing Nephro fellowship and very disappointing .