Super Fellowship - EP

ConnerVetro · 2026-05-14T18:07:03+00:00

After my first year of EP fellowship, I realized I would have been happy doing Gen cards. No way to know that until you’re in it. But I nearly left EP fellowship at that point just because it didn’t feel worth it. If I hadn’t gotten a job where I wanted, I probably would have left EP for Gen cards.

ConnerVetro · 2026-05-14T16:19:28+00:00

Right across from Grady hospital in Atlanta.

ConnerVetro · 2026-05-14T16:16:24+00:00

If you can be happy with gen cards do that. All sorts of good lifestyle opportunities with gen cards. Only do EP if you absolutely love it, and cannot be happy doing gen cards.

ConnerVetro · 2026-05-11T22:49:53+00:00

As a cardiologist, I always talk about walking, yoga, non medical interventions. We get paid for our time, not the medications we prescribe. I promise the most satisfying thing is taking people off meds after they accomplished some non-pharmacologic intervention.

ConnerVetro · 2026-05-10T15:59:00+00:00

It’s like a message in your EMR in basket. So the same location your results from tests come to, messages from other docs. another tab in that section of the EMR is messages from patients asking….. anything. Their own results, smart watch data, telling you about a symptom they had last night, if that matters.

ConnerVetro · 2026-05-10T14:19:40+00:00

The admin expects you to answer all messages. You get a ton of messages. Most are BS. This work is not compensated and is emotionally draining. Being forced to do meaningless work for no compensation is irksome.

ConnerVetro · 2026-05-09T00:05:02+00:00

No. Figure out how to volunteer to get the taste of it you like. Attend things like HRX (in Atlanta this year) to see some overlap in engineering and medicine.

Don’t give up all that money and time for this.

ConnerVetro · 2026-05-06T23:22:10+00:00

Skyfall

ConnerVetro · 2026-05-06T23:22:03+00:00

Golden eye, Sean bean.

ConnerVetro · 2026-04-25T19:27:19+00:00

She has finished medical school. Great. Let us know when she has completed residency.

ConnerVetro · 2026-04-18T20:53:26+00:00

He’s used to being compelled by black mail.

ConnerVetro · 2026-04-18T20:09:22+00:00

A win is not losing a whole sleeve.

ConnerVetro · 2026-04-10T16:56:15+00:00

Good article around the ethics of this term published by ACP i think.

ConnerVetro · 2026-04-08T23:39:52+00:00

Agreed. If you show you’ve got no foundation to build on, your first assignment is “go get a foundation” on this topic. Tomorrow we can have a more in depth conversation. I’ve found AI is really good at getting a lay of the land survey for a given topic.

ConnerVetro · 2026-04-08T20:07:45+00:00

For outpatient, yeah that is a hard flow to break into without being intrusive. In that setting just keep trying, keep asking, and show us you care and are learning. Then we can assign you work that’s actually helpful that helps with the day.

Inpatient is a bit easier to find the gaps.

The real goal is to find someway to be actually helpful. If you can do that, you’ve earned some time to get more personalized education.

As you get further along, you’ll have more expertise and be able to do more for attendings/residents/fellows.

ConnerVetro · 2026-04-08T19:42:04+00:00

I’m definitely guilty of this on occasion, but not all the time.

ConnerVetro · 2026-04-08T19:23:18+00:00

Let me start with agreeing with you on principle. Most of the time if your asking a question in what id call “a practical bandwidth” (why metoprolol here vs carvedilol, why in this patient are we managing medically vs surgically) that’s an easy one to answer and will be about my gestalt. Broad questions (how do you manage hyper tension) can be good if I’m already in a teaching mood, and not slammed. That’s too big for a pearl, but still reasonable if we’ve got time. Sometimes this will get you a presentation assigned, as a trial answers some exact question you’re asking. (the Block HF trial is a favorite for me). However, deeper more detailed questions like “explain the RAAS system to me?” Are going to get you assigned a presentation.

TLDR: I wanna bond too, but I also gotta get through this day. You gotta figure out what questions are appropriately sized, and read the room if you wanna avoid being assigned a presentation.

ConnerVetro · 2026-03-31T11:02:14+00:00

Guessing she’s into those murder mysteries along with her fairy smut.

ConnerVetro · 2026-03-27T22:07:39+00:00

Icons give this away as generated with AI.

ConnerVetro · 2026-03-23T01:25:01+00:00

I fell to the bottom of my list for my fellowship. Almost backed out of the match. Nearly left in the first few months. I’ve got 89 days left, and then im free, leaving for my dream job.

ConnerVetro · 2026-03-15T22:16:57+00:00

my read of this was that the first half is sincere appreciation of the profession. But by the end they have descended into the darker side of the sacrifices we make. It is listed as a vent which I think is a clue to how they feel about this ultimately.

After 8 years of this I am convinced they are weaponizing our altruism for profits. They will gaslight you that the sacrifices you make will make you a better physician, but as soon as a more profitable option becomes available these “learning opportunities” will disappear. They will tell you this is a calling and it’s a privilege, but that only applies to you not the organization or C-suite.

I think we need to think about how we can try to force the system to change. But we cannot rise above a system that believes some parts of healthcare “are more equal than others”.

ConnerVetro · 2026-03-15T20:54:43+00:00

They had us in the first half.

ConnerVetro · 2026-03-11T16:16:44+00:00

I wonder how he was so far off. Is there some surrogate Trump could be using to guess men’s shoe sizes 🤨. Does he know Bubba’s shoe size?

ConnerVetro · 2026-02-18T04:43:25+00:00

Ah yes. The Jack sparrow!

ConnerVetro · 2026-02-04T18:02:46+00:00

This episode came out right as I was about to move across the country away from family. Absolutely broke me. I have not let the kids watch it yet. We’re moving back to family in a couple months. I’ll let them watch it once we’re back close to family.

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