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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LukeWhite" data-source="post: 1311475" data-attributes="member: 17626">Vent,I'd mainly agree. I'm skeptical that AZCOM students work particularly harder than others, though obviously the ones who match into competitive specialties will on balance work harder than those that don't, and the rotation set-up does require a lot of personal involvement. But just no way to tell how hard we work relative to other schools.The away rotations are, it seems to me, key. Whatever the reason people are getting these slots, they're getting them, and a lot of it surely has to do exactly with what you've said---from what this lowly MS1 has seen, being able to go to programs to see and be seen is a huge bonus.Boomer,The point in question isn't if AZCOM's curriculum is skewed to primary care. That, at least superficially, isn't really relevant. The concern is whether AZCOM's setup, whatever it is, disadvantages those who want to go into specialties. At least compared to one school (and I suspect many more) that isn't the case.On a more subtle level, I'll stand by my original contention--having so much time in third year devoted to primary care and one-on-one work with physician's just can't help but build exceptional competence if one chooses preceptors well and involves oneself. If fourth year is spent showing off these skills to competitive programs and concentrating on learning sophisticated techniques instead of mastering the things most third years mainly see rather than do, stuck as they are behind layers of hospital-bound 4ths, interns, residents, then it seems to me that at least partially, it's precisely BECAUSE of this primary care focus that AZCOM seems to do so well in the match.In any case, statistics>logic>anecdote. I think the claims that AZCOM focuses on primary care and generally involves a fair bit of travel and the claim that AZCOM churns out an unusual number of specialists can coexist pretty easily.</blockquote>

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