<p><a href=“http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/hpme/index.html[/url]”>http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/hpme/index.html</a> gives you a pretty good intro.
<a href=“http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/hpme/research.html[/url]”>http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/hpme/research.html</a> mentions the MD/PhD program. </p>
<p>Other than what neom3x11 mentioned, Northwestern itself is a great school–both the undergrad and med schools are in top 25. <a href=“http://www.nums.nwu.edu/feinbergnews/newsDetail.asp?objectID=154&typeID=1[/url]”>http://www.nums.nwu.edu/feinbergnews/newsDetail.asp?objectID=154&typeID=1</a> (#20 in 2006 actually; has been moving up in recent years)
If it were some school out of top 25, probably less people would be willing to give up Stanford/Harvard. Fortunately, it’s not. If you end up to be a doctor, who really cares where you went for undergrad? Not to mention even if you become a premed at Stanford/Harvard, the odds is against you for getting into a med school better than Feinberg because the competition is so fierce these days. Any HPME student can still apply for other med schools and take the MCAT if he/she wants to, though nobody I knew bothered to do that.</p>