Thinking about What Comes After Fellowship: Blogging from ACC.13

March 10th, 2013

Thinking about What Comes After Fellowship: Blogging from ACC.13

Megan Coylewright, MD MPH

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending ACC.13 in San Francisco this week are blogging for CardioExchange. The Fellows include Tariq Ahmad, Megan Coylewright, Jeremiah Depta, Kumar Dharmarajan, Payal Kohli, and Sandeep Mangalmurti. View the previous post here and the next one here.

In the current market, it is challenging to know how best to proceed once it is time for the next big transition…finding a good fit in your first faculty job. Many academic settings are busy acquiring the local private practice, leaving hospital systems with a surplus of cardiologists and much work to do in restructuring their practices.

As an interventionalist, this is further compounded by falling reimbursement rates and declines in coronary procedures. Where will the field of structural interventions take us? TAVR is a piece of this, but those of us training in left atrium work (laa occlusion, perileak closure, mitral interventions) have an eye on trials like PREVAIL…the story is certainly complex.

One benefit of the large meetings is using the opportunity to meet with leaders at other institutions to begin the long job search. Lunches, informal meetings outside lecture halls, and formal dinners serve as early job interviews, with helpful connections from former friends and mentors from residency and fellowship…it really is about the connections we’ve made along the way, helping to shape our futures.

What connections hav you made at the meeting?.

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CardioExchange, an NEJM practice community for medical professionals dedicated to improving cardiac patient care, was active from 2009 to 2015. CardioExchange fostered discussion between clinicians from across the globe.

March 10th, 2013