Table 1.

Advantages and disadvantages of the interventional cardiology fellowship Match.

Advantages of the Match

Disadvantages of the Match

•Additional time to allow for a proper review of applications, conduct interviews, and determine final ranking •Recruitment of a more experienced and committed applicant pool •Convenience of immediate selection, thus avoiding the awkward process of reaching out to candidates to offer them a position •Potential to increase diversity in applicant pool, especially if the program historically recruited internal candidates before the Match •Binding contract between applicant and program

•Increase in burden of work to recruit candidates for those programs historically selecting internal candidates •Similar timelines for general cardiology and clinical electrophysiology fellowship Match, resulting in competing needs for staff/resources •Less control over the final Match selection •Less ability to “guarantee” recruitment of internal candidates •Less time to plan and begin fellow onboarding