<p>Where you got your MD matters only indirectly, but this can be important. Once you finish training, very few physicians will care, at all, where you went to medical school. You will be defined by where you trained, at least until you have established your own professional reputation. </p>
<p>Where you go to medical school CAN have a major influence on your ability to get highly oversubscribed residency positions. Coming from Hopkins med is a huge advantage if you want to train at Hopkins, and a less important, but still useful, leg up if you want to train at some other top place.</p>
<p>However, the advantage of training at a top place matters much more if you want to subspecialize, get work in a highly competitive city-like NY or SF, or build an academic career. If you want to do primary care private practice, your success will depend much much more on your people skills and business acumen than on where you trained, and not at all on where you went to med school.</p>