Best epilepsy fellowships

[Staphylococcus Aureus]

What are the top epilepsy programs? Columbia CCF John’s Hopkins UCSF etc. curious about NON-two year programs, also not sure what are the best programs in the Midwest/south regions. Thanks!

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[johnwandering]

When looking at programs, also think about what type of career you want in terms of how much you're interested in surgical epilepsy.

While looking for fellowships, I sort of knew that I wanted to end up being a neurohospitalist or private practice, and had little to no interest in academic medicine. If you're not doing academic medicine -> most cases this means you're not doing surgical epilepsy.
When choosing fellowships I wanted the absolute "best" program I could find and went to a prominent place -> was very surgically focused, and I had to prepare and present cases to neurosurgical multidisciplinary rounds every week with a lot of time spent reading several SEEGs weekly (if you have any experiences with these, can have large expansive montages, can be very difficult and labor intensive). Killed myself for a year.

I felt that a lot of my time was wasted there. What I really needed was to master EEG reading, and all the time I spent laboring over neurosurgical conferences and reading SEEGs was a complete waste.

 

[Staphylococcus Aureus]

When looking at programs, also think about what type of career you want in terms of how much you're interested in surgical epilepsy.

While looking for fellowships, I sort of knew that I wanted to end up being a neurohospitalist or private practice, and had little to no interest in academic medicine. If you're not doing academic medicine -> most cases this means you're not doing surgical epilepsy.
When choosing fellowships I wanted the absolute "best" program I could find and went to a prominent place -> was very surgically focused, and I had to prepare and present cases to neurosurgical multidisciplinary rounds every week with a lot of time spent reading several SEEGs weekly (if you have any experiences with these, can have large expansive montages, can be very difficult and labor intensive). Killed myself for a year.

I felt that a lot of my time was wasted there. What I really needed was to master EEG reading, and all the time I spent laboring over neurosurgical conferences and reading SEEGs was a complete waste.

What would you consider prominent surgical (as well as prominent less surgery heavy) programs?