Recent content by Super Turrican

  1. Super Turrican

    Possible to match pulm crit?

    Apply for a sleep fellowship over a POCUS one. If you don’t get in PCCM sleep will help a bunch and faculty is shared. Quite a few excellent Intensivist…. Did ICU/Sleep Clinic at mayo Rochester. It’s a great combo.
  2. Super Turrican

    Perennial question updates: salary/competitiveness

    I have been in this forum for over a decade! Well it’s worth it. It’s about 15% of my income, but alllows me some tax write offs, I read my own and my partners, own a sleep lab, extra source of referrals. Alllowed me not to do ICU anymore and sleep in my bed every night. I didn’t want to do...
  3. Super Turrican

    Moonlighting During Fellowship

    Don’t ask permission. Don’t ask forgiveness Just go and work far away.
  4. Super Turrican

    Are there restrictions on FMG's?

    I graduated med school in 2009. Ten years have gone by. What you realize ideally in Med school and sometimes shortly after is that everything that we are ALLOWED to do, is to benefit PATIENTS. The medical board of your state is there not to license docs, but to PROTECT THE PUBLIC form...
  5. Super Turrican

    Pulm/CC Fellowship much LESS competitive than IM residency?

    This was a wise comment... That got posted when I applied for a spot.
  6. Super Turrican

    Pulm/CC Fellowship much LESS competitive than IM residency?

    By the time you apply for fellowship, med school is a long way back at the end of your CV. I would say it is equally competitive, but you face a larger pool of "real" competitors. On second thought it may even a little more competitive if you don't develop in your career as much as your peers...
  7. Super Turrican

    New Fellowship position @ Mayo Clinic, Rochester: Pulmonary only!

    Hi! I just came to know that they will have a new fellowship option at my home program. One spot for 2 years Pulmonary only track starting next match season. We will have all options: 3 years PCCM combined, 2 years Critical Care and 2 years Pulm!
  8. Super Turrican

    Official 2014-2015 Pulm/CCM Fellowship Application Cycle

    No... That won't be enough. Look at last November. FROZEN!
  9. Super Turrican

    Official 2014-2015 Pulm/CCM Fellowship Application Cycle

    depends heavily in your immigration / visa status. Some programs will drop your file if you're not elegible for T32 funding. Some other will not sponsor H1B visas. Apply anywhere you'd be happy training. don't apply where you'd rather not go. The midwest has excellent schools that haven't had...
  10. Super Turrican

    Official 2013-2014 Pulm/CCM fellowship application cycle

    I cannot find those numbers, not even in the Match website...
Top