<p>Does the prestige or rank of a medical school directly impact the careers opportunities or income levels available to a new doctor? If you get into any medical school regardless of name recognition or prestige can you practice anywhere (location wise) and receive competent compensation to those that went to John Hopkins, etc? Or is it based more on the residency/medical school standings? thank you for your responses</p>
<p>it only matters if you're going into the research side</p>
<p>Even in research...it's probably not really super important - you can make up for it with interesting research...</p>
<p>The only other possible exception is academic medicine if you hope to teach at the prestigious schools. At my own school most of the lecturing clinical professors, tend to be products of the school or its residency programs.</p>
<p>Because the greatest influence on physician incomes are tied to insurance and government reimbursement rates, prestige has no bearing on how much money a doctor will make.</p>
<p>The thing you have to remember is that most applicants only receive one acceptance, and so the opportunity to really dictate where you go to medical school is often times removed from your hands, the decision is effectively made for you. And while you can dictate the situation somewhat by which schools you apply to, your best chances at acceptances will be in your home state (except in California and a few other really populous states which are ultracompetitive).</p>
<p>darn, so are californians disadvantaged when it comes to med school...im both a resident of CA and a student of a CA college...does where you go to med school affect where you will practice as a licensed professional?</p>
<p>California admissions are difficult simply because of numbers - there are a lot of people in general and a lot of colleges there. Plus plenty of people from out of state apply there too, hoping for the weather or the opportunities or the lifestyle or whatever...</p>
<p>Residency is likely going to determine where you get licensed initially much more so than medical school, simply because a lot of people move. But gradually the licensing requirements are becoming more standardized - I think. I think that for new docs, passing all the steps of the USMLE's is pretty much the standard, and state licensing is setting that as the minimum. Don't quote me on this though, b/c I really haven't looked into it much and I have an exam on wednesday so I'm a little fried right now.</p>
<p>Passing all three parts of USMLE and completing one year of residency in a timely fashion would be minimum licensure requirements for recent US grads in most states. Some states have exams on administrative law as it applies to physicians, but these exams are trivial.</p>
<p>"Non-recent" grads and physicians who have passed NBME or USMLE years ago may face additional testing.</p>
<p>shaqpack:</p>
<p>If you are really looking at residency to boost your chances, look no further than Texas. If you don't get into med school you're first try (this is assuming you are going to try again), I would say get a job in texas and establish residency there. They all highly favor instaters (with a whopping 90% from texas!), and there are some very good ones down there (ie southwestern, and baylor). So try that if you don't make it, but work hard so that doesn't happen lol</p>
<p>I believe he's talking about residency in terms of post graduate medical training, not where one has established a permanent address and fulfilled the legal obligations of establishing residency...</p>
<p>I realize that it's confusing...</p>
<p>yeah sorry about the confusion, i meant the residency program that you went to, not the actual place of residence...but anyways, thanks for your replies, i was educated by them</p>
<p>look up your local hospital, and do a 'find a doctor' search. take a look at their educational backgrounds and you'll see for yourself.</p>