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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a guy who didn't get into his top med schools so ended up going to a Caribbean school. His parents were pissed at the time at his decision but paid for it nonetheless. He's now a top anesthesiologist in the Boston area.[/quote]

WTF is a top anesthesiologist?  Patients don’t usually chose them, they hardly meet them in most cases.  I’m guessing you mean he makes a ton of money?  That tracks.

I know a doc who went to Caribbean med school; grew up with him. He is 100% a doc for the money and relatively stability of the field (we grew up relatively poor, though his parents did have enough money for med school obv). He is literally the craziest person I know (though I am a boring person, so it was just stuff like sleeping with his cousin, driving his car 120 on back roads, and a bit of drugs and nightlife in NYC during college — but just the way his mind works was a bit nuts).

I judiciously avoid docs from those schools. [/quote]

Hospitals seek out these folks, not patients. [/quote]

Right but what metric is a top doc measured?  You didn’t kill your patients??[/quote]

There are certain residency spots in the US that are very hard to get: plastics, orthopedic surgery, dermatology.  There are standardized test all medical students must take that get factored into the algorithm of where/what residency spots med students get.  The easiest being internal med and family practice.  So…if a Dr graduates with high test scores on these, top grades in school, interviews well, that is all factored in.  If my plastic surgeon jumped through all the hoops necessary to secure a U.S. general surgery residency, U.S. plastics fellowship, and passes an oral board exam plus a written one before become board certified in their specialty - I don’t care where he went to med school. [/quote]

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