How to choose Subspeicality/Fellowship

[subspecialty]

I like all aspects of neurosurgery, but I realistically know that it is pretty much required to subspecialize. Any advice from chief residents/young attendings on how you chose your subspecialty?

[Trigger]

Definitely not required if you go into community practice.

[Guest]

(05-23-2018, 10:12 AM)subspecialty Wrote: I like all aspects of neurosurgery, but I realistically know that it is pretty much required to subspecialize. Any advice from chief residents/young attendings on how you chose your subspecialty?

I chose shunts and wound washout because I trained at man's greatest hospital and best medical center.  As a resident, the only cases I was allowed to see were these, so that's all I know.

[Guest]

Choose in the same way you picked neurosurgery. Find a subspecality you enjoy and do a fellow ship in it. There is also nothing stopping you from doing more then one fellowship.

[Guest]

(01-26-2019, 05:55 PM)Guest Wrote: Choose in the same way you picked neurosurgery. Find a subspecality you enjoy and do a fellow ship in it. There is also nothing stopping you from doing more then one fellowship.

Only your wife, your bank account and common sense prevents multiple fellowships

[Guest]

(05-23-2018, 05:11 PM)Guest Wrote:

(05-23-2018, 10:12 AM)subspecialty Wrote: I like all aspects of neurosurgery, but I realistically know that it is pretty much required to subspecialize. Any advice from chief residents/young attendings on how you chose your subspecialty?

I chose shunts and wound washout because I trained at man's greatest hospital and best medical center.  As a resident, the only cases I was allowed to see were these, so that's all I know.

awesome

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(01-26-2019, 05:55 PM)Guest Wrote: Choose in the same way you picked neurosurgery. Find a subspecality you enjoy and do a fellow ship in it. There is also nothing stopping you from doing more then one fellowship.

more than one fellowship. lol

[NsurgPilot]

If you do more than one fellowship, does that raise any type of red flag or make you a less desirable hire as an attending?

[Guest]

(10-22-2019, 11:47 PM)NsurgPilot Wrote: If you do more than one fellowship, does that raise any type of red flag or make you a less desirable hire as an attending?

Can't think of why - only people who really do 2 fellowships are vascular folks (who need it to be complete), international folks (who need it for visa reasons), folks with subspecialties that are somehow complementary (e.g. spine/peripheral nerve), or...folks who still feel unprepared for practice after a residency and one fellowship.  That last group usually has other red flags as well...

[Guest]

it's 7 years...7 LONG years