<p>Any opinion?</p>
<p>UF has a better medical school than FSU by several measures:
1) greater academic strength of matriculants (higher GPA, MCAT averages)
2) much larger research program in basic sciences, not sure about clinical research program.
3) presence of a level 1 teaching hospital on campus (Shands) - FSU doesn't have a teaching hospital of their own, rather it makes use of community hospitals and centers during clinical years.</p>
<p>UF has an older, well-established traditional medical training program. FSU's program is new (established in 2000) and technologically based, with a distributed campus concept.</p>
<p>As to which is better, clearly UF's mature program is proven. FSU's program graduates have netted some solid residency slots, so it is doing quite well as far as I can tell. See: Residency</a> Match Day Results</p>
<p>Does anyone have an opinion about USF and the new program at UCF, by any chance? Thanks!</p>
<p>USF has a fine med school and is well established. UCF's program is provisionally accredited and has yet to graduate their first class.</p>
<p>In my opinion the question of which is better is really a moot point. If you’re a pre-med attending school in the state of Florida, it would behoove you to apply to <em>all</em> of the Florida med schools and then, if you should get offers from both, or multiple schools, start thinking about “which is better” at that point. People trying to get into med school just want to get an offer to somewhere, anywhere, for the most part.</p>
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<p>Eh - this doesn’t really mean much… it certainly doesn’t affect the quality of the medical education you receive.</p>
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<p>Again, doesn’t mean anything to the quality of education, which is really all that matters for medical school. Research, etc. is all fluff that is nice to have if you’re interested in that sort of thing, but otherwise doesn’t matter too much. Research money is a large part of rankings, which is why you can’t really trust the rankings for much other than to tell you how much research money the school pulls in.</p>
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<p>I didn’t know there was such a thing as a “level 1 teaching hospital”, but ok. This is the one potentially valid point here, but there are arguments on both sides. The hospitals you rotate at are important, but at smaller community hospitals, you don’t have to compete with residents (who are the first priority of academic teaching hospitals) and so will be able to actually do much more. On the other hand, usually the volume and acuity isn’t up to par with the large tertiary care facilities. </p>
<p>But you will get a good education at any medical school - this is guaranteed. You just need to chose which curriculum fits best with your learning style.</p>
<p>Either one is fine.</p>