<p>I am interested in Med schools, and want to learn medicine.</p>
<p>What are some good Medschools?</p>
<p>list, ranking, anything would help thank you.</p>
<p>what's the difference between medical schools-research and medical schools-primary care?</p>
<p>thanks again</p>
<p>Well, there are tons of good medical schools all over the country. Give us some more specific criteria.</p>
<p>Are you a HS student? A college freshman or sophomore?</p>
<p>The biggest thing I can tell you is that all 125 allopathic medical schools in the US are good and will provide you with the requisite knowledge and experience to practice medicine.</p>
<p>The other thing is that most people do not have the luxury of picking which medical school they will attend. The majority of applicants (55% last year) don't get accepted to a single school. Most students who do get an acceptance only get one. For the few people lucky enough to get multiple acceptances, the decision to matriculate at one school over another usually isn't tied to perceived quality but usually either cost (if they get accepted to their in-state school vs an out of state school) or just where they feel most comfortable.</p>
<p>The differences between research and primary care in the USNWR rankings are differences in their methodology. The research rankings place a lot of importance (30%) on how much money the school was awarded in grants from the National Institutes of Health. The Primary care rankings replace that 30% with the percentage of students from that school entering a primary care residency (Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine). </p>
<p>While the USNWR rankings attract a lot of attention for their methodology in ranking undergraduate schools, I find their medical school rankings even more problematic. The research rankings only look at NIH grants, and there is more money out there than just from this one source. I also think that grant money does not necessarily translate to a student being a better researcher if they graduate from that program. All it means is that if you are going to be an MD/PhD candidate at that school, it will likely be easier to get money for your research - something that usually isn't a problem from my understanding. </p>
<p>Likewise the primary care rankings put too much emphasis on where students end up. Just because students go into primary care doesn't mean they were educated well. It also ignores the fact that people have to go through those residencies to be specialists in things like cardiology, pulmonology, infectious disease or pretty much any non surgical specialty. I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be entering a pediatrics residency when I graduate, but I'm also pretty sure that after I complete that residency I'll be applying for a fellowship in some sort of pediatric specialty. But by going to peds, I will be boosting my school's % of students heading to primary care rank even though I likely won't end up providing any primary care during my career.</p>
<p>The best way to use these rankings is to answer either the question "If I know I want to go into research, which schools schools are going to give me the best chance to do so?" or "If I know I want to go into a primary care residency, which schools are going to be most conducive to that?" The actual rankings are pretty irrelevant in those specific questions. Really though, there is no medical school that is going to prevent you from going into either field if that's what you want to do. It's not like law school or undergrad where certain schools are looked at exclusively to fill positions in certain industries (ie Investment banking firms are filled almost entirely by grads from the Ivy League, MIT, and only a small handful of other schools).</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^</p>
<p>finally a helpful post</p>