<p>Ok, I'm doing a poll for what undergraduates believe to be the best medical school in the country!! Its down to these to schools:</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins University: School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School</p>
<p>Hopkins:0
Harvard:0</p>
<p>Take it away guys!!</p>
<p>p.s. This isn't for kicks, I'm writing a report for my internship and I need this information, and I feel this is a good place to ask, given you are a self-selected group!!</p>
<p>JHU. 10 char</p>
<p>On the USNWR, it's not even close.... Harvard by a mile.</p>
<p>That's the only source I have.</p>
<p>they swap # 1 and # 2 quite often i think.</p>
<p>but if i had the choice between the two, i'd goto Harvard med just so that i can brag about it in front of all the highschool kids here in CC :)</p>
<p>oh. and i think the title of this thread is a bit obscure. i had no idea HMS was Harvard medical school until i actually read the post. if you had just written JHU vs Harvard med, this would've gotten more immediate attention.</p>
<p>I have the 2008 US news that Bourne mentioned, and Harvard wins by a landslide...Hopkins is #2, but their Overall Score is only 82% of Harvard's. JHU also accepts roughly 50% more of its applicants.</p>
<p>Harvard is Hahvard because it is the Hahvard in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>If you ask any real academic, you will realize that JHU med shcool is at least on the level of Harvard's, if no better.</p>
<p>The OP did not ask about the USNWR ranking. He could have found it himself.</p>
<p>Medical School wise, Hopkins, i mean comon that is where House graduated from! lol but seriously Harvard is the most prestigious college in the world. However, i feel Hopkins Med slightly edges out Harvards</p>
<p>"This isn't for kicks, I'm writing a report for my internship and I need this information, and I feel this is a good place to ask, given you are a self-selected group!!"</p>
<p>A self-selected group is precisely the WORST group to survey! You would want a random group!</p>
<p>Well i know Harvard more for Law and Business... Hopkins for Med. I am not sure if i was asked randomly i would say Hopkins.</p>
<p>Take it for what its worth, ask any physician out there and they could tell you why HMS reigns supreme on those rankings of research medical schools.</p>
<p>Just the sheer enormoity of HMS's endowment outshines 99.99% of undergraduate programs out there. To be honest, with nearly $3.96 billion dollar endowment, and only 1345 students, you can be sure tat each individual studnet is getting th e type of care and need neccessary for them to succeed and to be well prepared for residency, third year rotations, step 1/2 tests, what have you.</p>
<p>Harvard's faculty is very high class, I personally know a person who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard medical school and I worked unders her for research. She is currently a Harvard professor right now and she is by all means a brilliant genius. She talks highly of both HMS and JHU in in respects to both the medical schools and the public health schools.</p>
<p>They are both excellent and prestigious medical schools.</p>
<p>Hopkins has international dignitaries flock literally head over heals to get world class treatment at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, (ranked the #1 hospital in the nation for the past 18 years in a row) and is centrally located next to a newly developed 31 acre science park, and #1 public health school in the nation.</p>
<p>Take it for what its worth. While Harvard has that name to it, in the medical world, Hopkins is just as equally pretigious and very highly branded as well. There are many people that tell me Hopkins doctors (graduate from the medical school or conduct residencies at the Hopkins Hospital...idk) are held to a high pedistal, pretty much a symbol of excellence btw.</p>
<p>So yeah, you can't go wrong with either.</p>
<p>Let me just summer what Phead128 was trying to say</p>
<p>'Hopkins'</p>
<p>haha</p>
<p>PMS for the win ;)</p>
<p>You do know there is a TV show out on the ABC network, Thursday at 10PM eastern time....showcase doctors and their daily routine, essentially a real life documentary of the types of patients they treat, the situations they encounter, the drama that ensues inside the real life mentioned stories at the so called mentioned "elite" Johns Hopkins hospital.</p>
<p>I wonder why no Terrence Wrong (yes, his name is Wrong, yes he is the producer) why he did not choose Mass General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess, Brigham and Women hospital, other any of the other world class teaching hospitals of HMS and why he wasn't interested in doing a documentary with them huh....</p>
<p>cuz they suck thats why. :) hehe no bias. MGH is actually a super good hospital. Right next to MIT, two train stops away from my house. Its actually a very good place to stay if your hurt or need specialized world class treatment for anything.</p>
<p>Well, I'm writing a paper on....I rather not disclose that, because that may contaminate some of the results....</p>
<p>Whoever said that "i could find the USNEWS ranking myself" was right...I found them, and I still asked here...Why? I'll tell you when I have obtained 100 responses...that's how many I need!!</p>
<p>Also someone remarked that I should NOT use a "self-selected" group...trust me buddy, that's EXACTLY what I need ;)</p>
<p>Thanks for all who have voted, but can you guys please keep an updated counter, so that I don't have to count it at the end, THANKS!!!</p>
<p>Harvard: 4
JHU: 4</p>
<p>Dude, they are equally prestigious. Just go ask some doctors and they would tell you more or less the same thing.</p>
<p>Now...Go ask some physician researchers. They will say differently. My friend's dad who actually is an assistant professor at HMS says that they have been recruited by Hopkins to do research there but due to financial constrains (Hopkins has a tuition reimbursement policy for its faculty and staff...meaning that their sons/daughtesr get 50% of the tuition undergrad,grad, whatever bill paid per spouse or man living there) but they said that Hopkins is highly collaborative and greater thinkers of the mind go there where as HMS tends to be more insular, pretentious and upscalar, less collaboration, more focus on getting the grants, getting the publications, getting the fame and notoriety (which of course the essence of what you do as a researcher anyways so...) yeah, had it not been for the sons differences in age, they financial situation (and the shabby east baltimore neightborhood), they would have gone to Hopkins. I'm not trying to be bias here, but thats what he said to me.</p>
<p>Edit: why ask us anyways? We're not premeds...are we... I'd be lucky to even get one acceptance let alone a handful. Only the best and brightest ppl go to JHMS and HMS. You'd be DANG lucky if you get get into both.</p>
<p>My mother is a nurse, and she always told me that the best doctors came from Hopkins and McGill. For what it's worth. :)</p>
<p>McGill is good but wayy over rated and this is coming from a canadian. its definitely good for the lack of funding.</p>
<p>About the McGill comment. This could be true in some fields but not at all for Medicine or the health and life sciences. For medicine it receives the highest distinctions from the AAMC and AMA, ranks often in the top ten internationally in peer-based reviews and quite deservedly so. Even though the university might not have the same research output as UofT (partly due to its size and lack of funding) it's still hosts some of the most highly cited researchers, has the most expansive network of hospitals and research institutions in Canada.</p>
<p>Hopkins Rocks</p>
<p>The answer depends on who are you are, obviously.</p>
<p>As an applicant who didn't get into either school, both schools are pretty useless to me. They have great reputations and great resources, but since I can't take advantage of them, they might as well not exist.</p>
<p>So my vote for the best medical school is... neither of those two. I think my school is best - rah rah rah!</p>