Best Medical Schools

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I was wondering what the best medical schools are for pediatrics, surgery, and general practicioning. </p>

<p>And if known what the MCAT and GPA requirements are for these schools.</p>

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<p>Go buy an MSAR - no school (at least those that screen primaries by numbers) publicizes minimum MCAT/GPA requirements</p>

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<p>All of them?</p>

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<p>“the best med school is the one that accepts you”</p>

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<p>none of those are highly competitive</p>

<p>do well in any medical school and you should end up in a prestigious peds, general surg, or family practice residency</p>

<p>of course, getting into the medical school is the 1st step</p>

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<p>A prestigious program can make peds (i.e. CHOPS, Boston Childrens, etc) and gen surg (MGH, Hopkins, Duke,etc) very competitive residency to match into.</p>

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<p>That is very true but even those programs take a larger # of residents/year than say, dermatology or integrated plastics.</p>

<p>Unless you absolutely need to stay in a certain area of the country, I don’t think the OP’s selection of medical school will preclude them from obtaining a top notch peds/GS/FP residency. More likely, it will depend more on what type of performance the OP demonstrates once getting into medical school.</p>

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<p>I agree. </p>

<p>As they need to learn, its what you do at the med school (+ all the extra stuff, externships, sub-i, research, and everything else) that will land you a residency spot. Just like pre-med. </p>

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<p>They reqs to get into these are just ridiculous. I have a friend taking a year off between 2nd and 3rd yr to do derm-related research so they can be more competitive for derm. Plus to network.</p>

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<p>ASMAJ - I’m not sure what you mean by “hard”. Difficult to match into, rough call schedules, mean support staff? What?</p>

<p>To the OP. to get into any specialty your med school is of minor significance…
That’s not to say it’s completely a non-factor when it comes to getting into a certain field or residency program…but 1) it’s not big enough to warrant basing med school applications and enrollments on, 2) the overwhelming majority of the time you have zero data to rely on anyways, and 3) how you put together your residency match list at the end of it all is based on so many different factors that to single out something like prestige is silly - 4th year med students are quite typically at a completely different station in life than they were as 1st years, that you can’t even begin to fathom the impact that will be had on where you want to go for residency. I mean, as just one example, I can name about 20 people in my class who got married while in med school and most were single when they started, and that definitely had an impact on where they’ve ended up.</p>

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<p>I believe ASMAJ meant it can be hard to match into peds/GS/FP if you’re looking at some specific immensely-prestigious programs.</p>

<p>Like CHOP for peds, MGH for GS, etc… etc…</p>

<p>This was in reference to my comment that matching into peds/GS/FP from an American medical school is not as tricky as most pre-meds would think.</p>

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<p>I edited it above. </p>

<p>I was responsing to the statement that surgury and peds is not as competitive to match into as the more tradiationally competitive residencies.</p>

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<p>Also, just for comparative purposes…CHOP takes 40 interns a year. Texas Children’s (which you could seriously argue is #1) takes 42.</p>

<p>Your big gen surg programs…8-12 categoricals (residents who have guaranteed spots for all 5 years of a gen surg residency). And most programs are more like 5 categoricals.</p>

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<p>Conversely, I had a good friend who went through the urology match this year. He ended up matching at a program that took 2 interns a year. 1 bad apple can really be a problem in programs like that!</p>

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<p>I know did is way off topic.</p>

<p>I know you are the only peds person here, but is there more anxiety among the peds residents/attendings with children not getting vaccinated and everything. I know some private practices are droping there patients if they dont want to vaccinate.</p>

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<p>Me? I’m not a peds resident.</p>

<p>Although from my medical school days, I would tell you that anytime I told my resident or attending a patient was refusing vaccination, it would be grounds for a long, long physician-patient counseling session (complete with thorough documentation). One of those was enough to ensure I wouldn’t be leaving clinic by 6PM.</p>

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<p>BigRed -cant remember if he did peds or med/ped.</p>

<p>Thanks for the response though. The peds EM people I’ve been with are worried since they generally the first to encounter these patients since it seems most dont have PCPs and treat the ER as such.</p>