What is yoyr take on the Caltech UCSD med scholars program?

8yearman
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:06:05 +0000

Toughyear, I couldn’t disagree with you more. As the son of a Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) alum who switched out of Brown PLME after three years of med school because it was too research and theory based, I can personally attest to the fact that BCM will emphasize bread and butter medicine over research. My father’s first day at BCM was in the ER, and there was a patient who had a gunshot wound who needed to be sewn up after surgery. My father didn’t know how to suture, so his supervisor told him to go to the butcher shop and buy a pig’s foot, take a suture kit, and practice sewing it up. There’s just a different feeling there than there is at a place where the most hands on you will get is an electronic dummy which simulates what a patient will be like, and I strongly believe BCM is one of the places which still passes the experience to med students.