A ‘Hybrid Fellowship’

A ‘Hybrid Fellowship’

My practice is 30% general urology and 70% a combination of kidney transplan-tation and urological oncology. In acquiring the surgical and clinical skills needed to be an efficient urological oncologist and kidney transplant surgeon, I pursued the kidney and pan-creas transplant Fellowship at The Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute of the Cleveland Clinic (Ohio, USA). In my opinion this Fe...

Hand Surgery Fellowship Selection Criteria: A National Fellowship Director Survey

BACKGROUND Candidate characteristics for hand surgery fellowship training remains unknown, as very little data is available in the literature. This study aims to provide information on the criteria that are employed to select candidates for the hand surgery fellowship match. METHODS A 38-question survey was sent in April 2015 to all Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education recogni...

Choosing a Post-Fellowship Path

While the gastroenterology career path is by no means short, for many of us it was relatively straightforward. If, like me, you knew you wanted to pursue gastroenterology, you moved from medical school to residency to fellowship relatively seamlessly, without need for significant pause or reflection. Yet during fellowship, there is a looming fork in the road. Mentors ask about your career goals...

Family medicine obstetrics fellowship graduates: training and post-fellowship experience.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine obstetrics and maternal-child health fellowships offer family physicians additional training in pregnancy care. Our objectives were to assess the content of these fellowship programs, the clinical practices of fellowship graduates, and factors associated with inclusion of cesarean delivery in practice after fellowship training. METHODS A survey was se...

The radiology fellowship and fellowship match: current status.