fellowship question...

As far as job placement goes (location, compensation) what seems to be the most important factor...the prestige of your fellowship or your residency program?

Quite honestly unless you're going into academics, I don't think that it matters too much on where you did your training. If I were to choose between the two, I would have to say that the fellowship is more important.

I've started to look into various orthopaedic opportunities and I have yet to receive the comment, "oh..., your doing your residency (fellowship) there." The main thing is that you're doing a fellowship, thus a year of specialized training which is what practices looking for a subspecialist want.