<p>BRM's excellent treatment of this topic can be found here:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=375248%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=375248</a></p>
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Basically, if you are hoping to do private practice (ie like most physicians in the US) then where you attend medical school, and complete your residency is not that important - patients are unlikely to ever ask, and less likely to even care if they think you are doing a good job...</p>
<p>If you are hoping to go into one of the notoriously difficult to obtain residency fields like Radiology, Opthalmology, Anesthesia or Dermatology, our general consensus is that it couldn't hurt go to a "better" medical school...</p>
<p>If you are hoping to go into academic medicine or heavily research oriented medicine, then where you go to medical school and complete your residency matters anywhere from a little to a lot more...</p>
<p>Finally if you are hoping to go into a field where perceived public opinion of your medical training will play a large role in your success, then obviously going to a name school will be better. Careers like being plastic surgeon to the rich and famous, or being involved in politics or lobbying will be enhanced if you are from some place like Harvard. ...
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