<p>Johns Hopkins
University of Washington St. Louis
Harvard
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and???</p>
<p>One might call some "best" however one must note that all licensed medical schools in the United States are excellent</p>
<p>(it's Washington University in St. Louis by the way - the University of Washington is separate and also a very good medical school on its own right)</p>
<p>it depends on various things - most notably whether you want to go into primary care or research. just look at the US News ranking lists - JHU, Harvard, etc. aren't considered the best schools for primary care, while they're in the top 5 or 10 for research.</p>
<p>Many states only have one school of Medicine, so this is a dumb question.</p>
<p>Ok, I'm confused.</p>
<p>If I want to be a Neurosurgeon, which one would be the best?</p>
<p>bumpification</p>
<p>doesn't matter. </p>
<p>If you are in HS, you should worry less about what specialty you should go into and more on doing the things necessary to get into a college that meets your needs (talking about fit, prestige of undergrad matters not one iota in med school admissions).</p>
<p>Most medical students do not have any concrete idea of what type of residency they will pursue until well into the 3rd year of medical school, after going through a couple of clinical rotations and finding out the competitiveness of their board scores. Even then, that decision is not made for absolute certain until February of the 4th year. That means if you are a current HS Senior, you are at a bare minimum of 8 years away from said decision. And that assumes that you graduate from college in 4 years and you get into medical school on your first application cycle - both two things that are far from certainities. So keep an open mind.</p>
<p>thank you, I was starting to feel bad lol</p>
<p>Neurosurgery is a surgery subspecialty, which means that you have to finish your surgery training first before you are considered for this subspecialty. That is more than 8 years away from high school. You probable need to do extremely well in a top notch surgery training program. Dont worry what is the best medical school at this moment. Just study hard and watch some Greys Anatomy. You will be fine.</p>
<p>t1388 - you're wrong about having to complete a surgery residency first. </p>
<p>Neurosurgery is its own separate residency path, 7 years in length, with the first year as a general surgery intership during the PG-1 year (however you cannot take a prelim medicine or transitional year in place of the prelim surgery year). While there are some programs that are "advanced" and take students after the PG-1, there are probably more that are "categorical" and pick students out of the fourth year of medical school (M4), put them through a PG-1 surgery internship at their own hospital and then move them through the remaining 6 years of the residency program. Neurosurgery match is also done through the San Francisco Match program rather than the normal Match, so the decision for neurosurgery is actually due in December with the submission of the Rank order list.</p>
<p>I agree with the folks who are saying it doesn't matter, particularly if you are entering undergrad. But unless you want to be a researcher, all accredited med schools in the US can get you most of where you need to go.</p>
<p>But if you are looking for the best:</p>
<p>Don't forget UCSF. The birthplace of biotech, from which Genentech was spun out and at which gene splicing the basis of most biotech companies was developed. Not only is it top-ranked on the West Coast above other powerhouses University of Washington (as opposed to Washington University) and Stanford, but it has been inhabiting its new multi-billion dollar campus, a campus which is apparently the envy or at least object of proposed imitation of the likes of Harvard and others. It receives more NIH funding than any other California university and it has spun out numerous biotech firms.</p>
<p>Andrew Grove, former Chairman and CEO of Intel, raised $1.5 billion for the campus. When asked why, aside from the fact that he is a UC (Berkeley) graduate, he said he tried a few different medical schools out to handle his prostate cancer and UCSF's faculty impressed him the most with their treatment. It's had Nobel prizes and competes with Johns Hopkins, Harvard, etc. for the best. It perhaps doesn't have such strong profile because it is a dedicated, graduate biomedical campus and is not seamlessly affiliated with UC Berkeley, the closest UC campus (that doesn't have a med school by the way), though they have institutes and research efforts in common.</p>
<p>Sorry for the error. Bigredmed is right. Neurosurgery is its own separate residency path and matching program. The Neurosurgery Residency Matching Program (NSMP) was established to coordinate the PGY-2 appointments for Neurosurgery. The program supplements the PGY-1 matching services of the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP). It is planned to allow applicants to know their PGY-2 placement in Neurosurgery before they submit their rank list for PGY-1 choices. Most neurosurgery programs strongly encourage their matched applicants to complete their General Surgery training in the same place. Therefore the programs are really selecting students right out of their fourth year of medical schools. Thanks for the correction.</p>