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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious what people think is inaccurate that has been posted?[/quote]

What’s a “great” premed. 
What’s a “great” med school. 
All these silly rankings.

Med school isn’t like law or business. In med school, what matters is what you know, empathy for people, and wanting to serve. It’s not about  rankings or perceptions or gaming the system. It’s a calling. And if you love it, you’ll do great things. [/quote]

I am a doctor who went to a top undergrad and a top med. While of course it is correct that it is a calling, I had friends who were called to ophthalmology (lost an eye as a kid), neurosurgery(dad died of brain cancer). Or they thought they wanted primary care and then fell in love with a super competitive specialty that they were introduced to on med school clinicals and then realized only a handful of places in the US have this subspecialty. The entire class of top 15ish med school grads, even the bottom people(it is pass-fail so there is no strict rank), are able to match into any specialty they want due to the reputation of the top med schools. It is not just a prestigious name, the top med schools are tertiary care centers with highly specialized capability and best in the US or world level clinicians teaching. Residencies specifically surgical or interventional driven fields tend to be the best at the hospital systems affiliated with the top med schools: they select a majority for these programs from top med schools, their own or other schools with that subspecialty. One has to have in depth experience to match in certain fields. 
CHOP for example has developed cardiac procedures that were revolutionary in pediatrics: if you want to be a top peds cardio surgeon you need to be there or maybe 6 other places for your training. Same with groundbreaking cancer treatments: they happen at the same 5-10 hospitals in the country. 
That is even more important now as robotic techniques are added to the operating theater. Very few med schools in the country have a fully dedicated teaching robotic surgical suite for med students to use.

It absolutely matters where you go to medical school if you have dreams and goals that involve subspecialties, or if you want to be a cutting edge research MD-phD. I do not know a single undergrad who made it to med school nor any of my med school peers who thought "I just want to be a doctor any doctor will do". No that is not how it ever is, for those that end up making it. [/quote]
If you want to be a researcher, the hardest part will be getting into an MD-PhD program.[/quote]

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