Stay at Rutgers or Transfer to Penn??

astor
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:54:49 +0000

I’m not lying when I say that your USMLE scores will largely impact your residency, not name-brand. That’s where it equalizes different curriculums.

I think the law school analogy might not work for you, since to my knowledge, they don’t serve something like residencies and rotations that are largely based off of exams they take after 2nd year and 4th year. Score well on the USMLE and you’ll get a good chance to get into competitive residencies such as surgery. Just going to a name-brand doesn’t do ***** when it comes to residencies, kind of like saying how it’s silly to think only ivy undergrads get into ivy med schools because of their undergrad “name-brand”…USMLE step I and II exams largely decide those.

After you serve your residency, you’ll get a good idea of where you’ll work at in terms of specialty and also area. Go ahead and go to your local hospital or your current physician and see where they went to school and try to gauge the importance of ivy med schools. Big name med schools are good for research since you’ll have a lot more resources at schools with large endowments (nicer facilities, more connections, etc.), but in medical school to go into clinical, USMLE exams will paint a picture of where you can go for residencies.