<p>And if your goal is to be a doctor – an everyday doctor, just working, treating patients and the like – and you’re not interested in being a cutting-edge researcher or going into academia – honestly, any medical school will do. </p>
<p>Med school isn’t like law school or business school, where the opportunities are broadest for those at the top and narrow as you go down. Once you’re a doctor, you’re a doctor. It’s not as though Blue Cross Blue Shield reimburses the Harvard Med School grad for a procedure at a level higher than they reimburse the State Flagship Med School grad, and it’s not as though the Harvard Med School grad has any secrets to running his or her own business practice that isn’t just as accessible to the State Flagship Med School grad.</p>
<p>In medicine, comparing within the same specialty of course, I actually see extremely little correlation between income and rating-of-med-school. How well a doctor runs his or her practice is the key determiner of income. The State Flagship Med School grad with business sense can easily double the Harvard Med School grad without business sense.</p>