<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I currently go to Sophie Davis, which is a 7 year medical program in New York City. We will be preparing for our medical school matches soon, and I cannot decide which school to rank first. If anybody has any information on these schools, your experiences, or things you've heard about these schools, advantages of going to one over another, etc. please share!!! Thanks so much!!!</p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>hmm...i'd probably not post this in three separate forums</p>
<p>and then what i would recommend is to ask your guidance counselor</p>
<p>as for my own personal views</p>
<p>nyu med: expensive, not the greatest med school, GREAT location in terms of hospitals and lifestyle</p>
<p>dartmouth: expensive, probably the best of all three in terms of clinical medicine, horrid, cold, isolated location</p>
<p>stony brook: nice and cheap, a very very good school for academic medicine, location isn't great but I believe it's only an hour away from NYC by train</p>
<p>with the above post. Clinical medicine at Dartmouth does not even come close to that of SUNY Stony Brook or NYU.</p>
<p>Stonybrook, hands down. Then NYU</p>
<p>The training (ie kind of patients) you receive at Bellevue is hands on - it is the only regional hospital designated as a trauma 1 level hospital, which means that you'll get to see all the gory accidents and stabbings and gunshot wounds. It will be much better preparation and make you a better doctor than anything you'll see out on Long Island or in NH. </p>
<p>Excellent training if you're interested in going into ER, psych, internal medicine.
Additionally, it's higher ranked by USNews than the other two:
<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/med/brief/mdrrank_brief.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/med/brief/mdrrank_brief.php</a></p>
<p>Stony Brook is the only teriary type I trauma center in Suffolk County, a county of two million people. The type of trauma you see may differ from Bellvue, less of the violent type and more of the vehicular type (the highways are disasters). The hospital and medical school is currently undergoing a 300 million dollar renovation. The area is safe and quiet, and if I was to get called out at 2AM, I'd much rather do so at Stony Brook than at Bellvue. </p>
<p>Having trained at both places, I'd say that NYU is also a great place. And as the post above says, for psych, you can't beat Bellvue. However, the poster above should not Knock SB for training. You can't go wrong at either place, it probably involves what specialty you want, if you want research, and the type of lifestyle you want.</p>