I am 3 months into my PCCM fellowship in a clinically busy west coast program. Despite taking care of very critically ill patients, looking at my log — I have only 3 intubations (all due to critical illness). I know it’s early on in fellowship and I have time to get more but I am interested in jobs in the north east and don’t know what the “requirement” for intubations are.
For anyone interested in research or looking to get more involved, particularly in Cardiology and its overlap with specialties like Rheumatology, Infectious Disease, Oncology, and GI, feel free to reach out! I have multiple ongoing/completed projects
Whether it’s systematic reviews, meta-analyses, or other forms of clinical research, I’m always happy to connect, exchange ideas, and help anyone who may be struggling with where to start.
Research can be overwhelming, especially in the beginning, and I’m always happy to share whatever I’ve learned along the way. Always open to learning and collaborating with others!
Basically the title. PD and mentor have both offered to reach out to top ranks but I only truly care about them doing this for #1.
Also PD vs Mentor? Mentor is somewhat known in the field so should I let them both do it or just mentor would be fine?
Oregon vs Wake Forest vs Wisconsin
I am prioritizing high procedural volume, robust didactics, career developement and support. Prestige slightly important as I am interested in healthcare leadership. Partner looking for politically active state d/t job
What do you all think about the newest 2016 NRMP match data for pain medicine fellowship showing 87% match rate? Seems like the fellowship has rebounded with quite a spike from EM applicants. Getting modestly competitive again
NRMP data 2026:
Positions filled: 374
Positions unfilled: 14
Matches applicants: 374 (87%)
Unmatched applicants: 54 (12.6%)
I feel that as long as they don't see a major red flag about your personality, a lot of questions they ask are pretty generic and I don't see how anyone can decide to rank someone just based on these questions. I'm interviewing for Cards here, I'm not sure if it's similar in other subspecialties. Does anyone else get this feeling?
The difference is ~30k annually, both medium density areas with similar cost of living. Similar workload from talking to the fellows.
The lower paying one offers an extra year of Crit care training
Not sure exactly what my question is, but from the people who are/have been in a similar position - Is taking QOL hit for those 3 years worth it? :/
Did med school/residency in midwest, so my knowledge of these programs are fairly limited. Would really appreciate any thoughts on these programs. My priority is just having the best overall cardiology training experience:
- montefiore
- NSLIJ
- Lenox Hill
- Mount Sinai Elmhurst
Not sure why it seems like every single Postdoc/Fellowship application requires 3 LORs each time on top of a cover letter, letter of intent, research statement and the list goes on and on (very unrealistic expectations).
Well, I have been gathering a list of U.S. Industry Postdocs/Fellowships that do not ask for such thing and at most just one LOR.
Feel free to suggest any in the comments. Thanks.
Edit 1: By LOR, I mean a letter of recommendation ( which is different from a letter of reference).
Edit 2: A list of Letter of 3 references are fine. Some programs will ask for 3 letter of recommendations only if you make it to the interview or if you get accepted into their fellowships and those are fine.
Edit 3: FYI: Many postdocs/fellowships from companies like Pfizer, Merck… do not ask for any LORs.
Can someone please explain how does academic probation affect future job search, state licensing and life after fellowship?
Fellowship : Heme-Onc
Probation Period: 3 months
Cause of probation : Not showing "sufficient" improvement in acgme domains ( patient care) during remediation period.
I appealed the decision and as expected it was denied. I can appeal to the next level. Contemplating if I should do this. I am in third year. I have a network of mentors who continues to advocate on my behalf. Once the evaluations from outpatient setting has turned up consistently become positive, the focus quickly shifted to inpatient. Always had good patient rapport.
I used to be very happy person once upon a time being able to train at a good academic institution. But being through all this, I have realized that rules are different for people and pedigree matters. I have like 8 months to graduate and at this point, just want to graduate with some grace and leave.
I’m a physician in Austin and my wife works for Advanced Pain Care. They’re looking to hire an interventional pain physician, and I told her I’d post here and see if anyone might be interested.
It’s a large pain practice in Austin/Central Texas. Most of the physicians are anesthesia or PM&R trained, and they also have neurosurgery, ortho, neurology, rheumatology, addiction medicine, PT, etc. Pretty much bread-and-butter interventional pain with PA support.
From what I understand, compensation is more than very competitive for pain, plus bonuses. Schedule is 8–5 Mon–Thurs and half-day Friday. Most locations are in the Austin area, with some clinics in the surrounding cities 10-30 minute drive from downtown Austin.
I’m not a recruiter and don’t know every detail of the contract, but I know the practice and a lot of the physicians there and they’re very happy. If anyone is actually interested or just curious about the job, DM me and I can put you in touch with my wife.
no geo preference
UVA
Cedars Sinai
UCSF
UCLA
UF Jax
Mayo FL
Dartmouth
Brown
Westchester
Houston Methodist
CCF-Ohio
CCF-FL
U Minnesota
UCSD
NYU
Montefiore
MUSC
USC-LA general
Hello everyone, would be grateful for any help with making my ROL for endocrinology fellowship. Please rank based on 40% diverse city/ 60% good exposure to unusual cases and breadth of endocrinology
City of Hope; Case Western/MetroHealth; Dartmouth; University of Louisville; UNMC; Allegheny Health Network; University of Oklahoma; MedStar Baltimore; WVU; UMass Baystate; UNLV
Can anyone share some insight into the work-life balance and lifestyle of an orthopedic sports medicine physician? Thank you.
Which program is considered better for rheumatology fellowship. BIDMC or BU/BMC?
Really confused about which one to rank higher
For those who matched GI last year, how much of a role did letters of intent and thank-you emails play in where you matched?
I don’t have anxiety usually but my body involuntarily exhibited all signs of anxiety and panic prior to interview: palpitations and stuttering in speech, etc.. I liked the program.
Not my best performance. But anyone still matched there despite not their best performance?
I am a US IMG and have 10 interview for heme Onc fellowship (incl. my home program which has high internal competition)and 1 more outside the match at a place very near to where I’m doing residency at the moment. I have no ties to the US so am very flexible on location now (long story). I went for an interview and they told me they’ll let me know in a few days and that I’d need to make a decision quickly if they decide to offer a place.
My concern with this place is that it does appear to be very work heavy, is in a safety net hospital in a sketchy area and I didn’t even get to speak to the fellows at the program (they were ‘too busy’ apparently) which in my mind is a red flag. This fellowship is established for past 12 years and has good board pass rates it seems. The PD and APD seemed nice who I interviewed with.
My debate is if they offer me a spot I’ll have very little time to decide. Should I take it or risk going unmatched? What would most do in a similar situation? All my rank list is IMG friendly community programs anyway and about 8 of the 10 are much better than this place