Any numbers on fellowship competitiveness? Which are more/less competitive?

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Any numbers on what are chances of obtaining fellowship? e.g. similar to how NRMP releases numbers on residency acceptance rates

Specifically, interested in peds if anyone has that data.

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This question does not make much sense. Multiple top fellowships (Toronto, Alabama, Utah) did not fill this year. There is no acceptance rate as each fellowship takes one fellow, and most fellow applicants will apply to the same top programs and a couple others that might suit them geographically. Reality is that there is a bottleneck in attending peds jobs, which are few in number annually, and the number of fellowship programs exceeds the vacancies at the faculty level.

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(04-17-2024, 04:11 PM)Guest Wrote: Multiple top fellowships (Toronto, Alabama, Utah) did not fill this year.

Whoa, really?

Looks like Utah, SickKids, Stanford, Hopkins, and OHSU are all advertising outside-the-match fellowships. Wild.

There's way too many peds fellowships, but if big-name legacy programs are going unfilled there must not have been many applicants.

In Peds I'd say the match rate for getting a fellowship approach 100%, and the percentage of peds fellow graduates practicing 'mostly pediatrics' is 40-50%. Constantly in evolution, of course.

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The field of peds is a dumpster fire at the moment. Simply put, there are not enough “peds-only positions” to support the number of neurosurgeons graduating from peds fellowships each year. So the vast majority of peds-trained attendings has to supplement their practice with adult general neurosurgery. Which basically means that they do a lot of lamis and subdurals, with very occasional peds shunts (which their partners are only too happy to dump on them, with all their associated parental headaches). I would recommend steering clear of the field for the foreseeable future, as you will lose a year of attending salary, and at the end not even be able to practice much in ur chosen field.