<p>I know a prospective med school student who has applied to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. I've never heard of it; not that I'm an expert, like many of you! Anybody here familiar with it--know what kind of student they prefer to admit? Can you give me a couple of comparables?</p>
<p>You can look up this information in the MSAR ar at USNews.</p>
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<p>Or you can inquire about it from current applicants on that other pre med message board.</p>
<p>BTW, Jefferson is the de facto “state” med school for Delaware.</p>
<p>(I know at least one Jefferson Medical School grad. But he just retired so his opinions are probably way out of date.)</p>
<p>Jefferson stresses primary care with lots of community clinics. Grads tend to like family practice types of specialties. New program trains med students in teams with Jeff students in pharmacy, nursing, and some other allied health specialties.</p>
<p>Odd factoid: school colors are black and blue.</p>
<p>While I was a MS4 at MCP-Hahnemann SOM, now Drexel University SOM, I did an away elective rotation in Radiation Oncology at Jefferson and while the specialty can be such an emotionally difficult one that while I was there one of the residents resigned from the Residency Program in Radiation Oncology because she found herself going home and crying every night, I enjoyed my six weeks there. The teaching was good, the facilities were very up to date and people there were very friendly to me.</p>
<p>There were originally five allopathic medical schools in Philadelphia that enjoyed good cooperative relationships for 150 years. However, in the 1990’s a foundation from Pittsburg called AHERF came in acquired the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University SOM and their teaching hospitals and merged them into one medical school. The megalomaniac named Abdulhak who headed AHERF embarked on a plan to take over the market in Philadelphia by buying hospitals and physicians practices. The UPenn SOM and Medical Center was also being run by an egomaniac named Kelly who was determined that UPenn would dominate the Phildadelphia market. The two systems engaged in ruinous bidding wars which forced them to way overpay for hospitals and practices. By the end of the decade both systems were essentially bankrupt. Drexel University acquired MCP-Hahnemann out of bankruptcy and fired Abdualhak and the rest of the AHERF people. When the President of the University of Pennsylvania was informed that the UPenn Medical Center would need an immediate $300 million cash infusion or face liquidation she had no choice but to provide it from the University’s endowment but fired Kelly and his top aides on the spot.</p>
<p>Jefferson was careful to stay out of this and saved their resources during what were very hard times for academic medical centers all over the country. They probably realized they would lose market share to AHERF and UPenn for a while but knew both systems were eventually headed for disaster. I thought Jefferson was a good school and if I had to do medical school again would not hesitate to go there.</p>