20+ out years after graduating from medical school...comparing classes

[idkoop]

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this is a thought experiment. say we were to compare graduating classes of medical schools of different tiers, 20+ years out. so for example, HMS vs. Mt. Sinai vs. Tufts vs. NYMC. It seems entirely possible that the average graduate in the Tufts/NYMC graduating class might be doing as well (financially) as the average HMS or Sinai graduate. This is not to say that money is all that meaningful a measure of comparison, but it seems that if all the Tufts/NYMC students in a given class shoot for monetized residencies, and all the HMS/Sinai students in the same class shoot for internal med/primary care, then the former will be doing better 20+ years out. Furthermore, it seems like this might actually be the case, because places like HMS turn out so many MD/PhDs and other students who go into academic medicine and research, etc. If you take out the superstars at HMS (who probably become head of drug companies, etc), then this seems even more possible. Thoughts?

 

[idkoop]

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[QuakerPreMed]

This is a good point but I think it's come up before. Plenty of low-tier med schools (whatever that means) match students into optho and derm and plastics and they're making bank and working 45 hours a week in fifteen years, while the slaves of academia from top-five schools make $85k and work 70 hours a week doing four different things.

I'm only mildly bitter that I'm in that latter category. At least my parents will have heard of the school my MD comes from? 🙁