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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a few possible downsides:
1) most 18 year olds don't have any real clue about whether they are interested in or have aptitude for medicine, with possible exceptions of those with medical parents.  Committing that early sometimes backfires, on the other hand can always pull out of the MD part not the right career pathway anymore as the student progresses through the bachelors part.  Would be interested to hear what % of students end up not going to med school

2) These are not exactly the top US medical schools, so the reason they do this in the first place is to try and poach top students early who will bring up their pass rate/scores on part 1 of the medical boards, and get into better residency programs than their average graduates. Of the list, I think only Pitt is even top 50.   On the one hand, med school in the US is pretty similar everywhere, it is trade school, and the education will be quite similar everywhere. Experience is much more individual depending on what hospitals the student happens to rotate at and which docs they happen to work with. For getting into most residency programs in internal medicine, pediatrics, pathology, general surgery it really doesn't matter what med school the applicant went to if they have good scores and good grades/comments on their rotations. But for the hyper competitive residencies in the high paid/low stress specialities (dermatology, optho, radiology, rad oncology, anesthesia-not low stress but set hours and high pay) it does matter what med school one attended and may be ruling out those subspecialties by taking a spot in one of these programs.

3) These are not research-heavy programs (except Pitt) so no chance for a funded MD/PhD spot (MSTP) or a real research track[/quote]

Wrong about so many things.  Case Western is--or nearly always has been--a top 25 medical school, to take one example.[/quote]

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