Best DO school to match in NYC?

[Pdazzle11]

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I really want to live in nyc at some point in my life. Unfortunately touro Harlem seems to have a terrible rep and is probably not the best choice for school. I was wondering what other schools give me a good chance of matching in the city? I’m specifically trying to do emergency medicine. So far I have nyitcom on my list. Any more?

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Why on earth would you want to train in the trash hospital environment that are NYC hospitals?

 

[Pdazzle11]

Why on earth would you want to train in the trash hospital environment that are NYC hospitals?

To live in the greatest city on the planet before I marry and move to a suburb like every other doctor.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

To live in the greatest city on the planet

 

[Goro]

I really want to live in nyc at some point in my life. Unfortunately touro Harlem seems to have a terrible rep and is probably not the best choice for school. I was wondering what other schools give me a good chance of matching in the city? I’m specifically trying to do emergency medicine. So far I have nyitcom on my list. Any more?

N YITCOM or PCOM

 

[adrenocorticotropicana]

Why on earth would you want to train in the trash hospital environment that are NYC hospitals?

because from 2013-2014 I was hospitalized in them so frequently ^____^

but seriously comparing Touro COM (Harlem & Middletown) with NYIT's match lists they seem comparable -- esp w my target residency: psychiatry and since NYIT's class size is ~315 and Touro's class size is like ~135 so I am not getting this dig at reputation unless someone can back it up?

Match Results
Match Results
https://www.nyit.edu/files/medicine/NYITCOM_InternshipAndResidencyPlacementChartBySpecialty_2017.pdf

 

[AlbinoHawk DO]

To live in the greatest city on the planet before I marry and move to a suburb like every other doctor.

Your first 2 years you will spend studying most of the time. You won't be having this amazing life in the "greatest city on the planet." If you have a proper 3rd year, you will be working most of the time. First half of 4th year you will spend on auditions and board exams. It's quite honestly a waste of your money to go to NYC to live in a matchbox just to say you're in NYC.

I truly discourage most people from deluding themselves into thinking that the city you are going to be in med school makes a difference. I was minutes from proper LA and I can say that during my first 2 years I never visited once. I had a bit more time to see LA 3rd year and I was gone on 4th. Honestly, I would have gotten more of LA had I just gone as my month vacation during my 3rd or 4th year

 

[adrenocorticotropicana]

I’m on New York State medicaid, need regular access to my medical providers and a large bulk of my social and support network is here. it would be least disruptive to go to a school in the city I suppose. I think the city you go to makes a difference as far as friends and support system is concerned.

 

[Pdazzle11]

But TourCOM Harlem

because from 2013-2014 I was hospitalized in them so frequently ^____^

but seriously comparing Touro COM (Harlem & Middletown) with NYIT's match lists they seem comparable -- esp w my target residency: psychiatry and since NYIT's class size is ~315 and Touro's class size is like ~135 so I am not getting this dig at reputation unless someone can back it up?

Match Results
Match Results
https://www.nyit.edu/files/medicine/NYITCOM_InternshipAndResidencyPlacementChartBySpecialty_2017.pdf

But touroCOM harlem is losing rotation sites, has a terrible administration, and doesn't seem to be in a very safe area. I'd love to go to school in NYC but the way things are going I'm scared touro harlem would lose accreditation as a medical school while I am there lol.

 

[adrenocorticotropicana]

But TourCOM Harlem

But touroCOM harlem is losing rotation sites, has a terrible administration, and doesn't seem to be in a very safe area. I'd love to go to school in NYC but the way things are going I'm scared touro harlem would lose accreditation as a medical school while I am there lol.

it is such a ****ed up racist thing to say that Harlem is "unsafe" while it experiences massive gentrification. I haven't even heard of any street violence there lately. In contrast cf. UChicago, which is in the middle of several neighborhoods filled with gun violence.

 

[adrenocorticotropicana]

wow suburban rich kids are more sheltered than I thought

 

[adrenocorticotropicana]

What is unsafe about 125th St Harlem between 6th and 8th Avenues? That's just coded racism. If you don't know basic facts about a neighborhood filled with people of color, don't spout your mouth off about it.

I also never mentioned race so you can stop playing the race card.

that's only something a white person would say -- "I can't be racist!! I only referenced racial markers very indirectly"

125th St West Harlem is like the epitome of gentrification in NYC, because it sits just to the north of the Columbia University campus. By what measure are you calling it unsafe? Obviously, because it's still associated with a group of ethnicities or cultures you don't get along with.

 

[adrenocorticotropicana]

No, the issue is that you said an entire neighborhood (not traditionally associated with white people) was unsafe -- when it is in fact, super safe. For what reason?

99% of people who make that mistake come from sheltered backgrounds, so I am sorry if I misidentified your background.

 

[Goro]

I really want to live in nyc at some point in my life. Unfortunately touro Harlem seems to have a terrible rep and is probably not the best choice for school. I was wondering what other schools give me a good chance of matching in the city? I’m specifically trying to do emergency medicine. So far I have nyitcom on my list. Any more?

I can't recommend Touro-NY because:
Poor COMLEX II pass rates; unethical behavior in how they dealt with an overbooking issue two years ago.

I think that they're way too much of a cash-cow for the Touro system to be allowed to go belly up; Touro will have to simply pony up more money to salvage them. But I haven't heard anything that they're even close to being put on probation much less losing accreditation.

WCU? Now that's a different story. But again, probation comes first. Losing accreditation is a nuclear weapon.

 

[sab3156]

I was wondering what other schools give me a good chance of matching in the city? I’m specifically trying to do emergency medicine. So far I have nyitcom on my list. Any more?

MD schools (the medical schools that don't have the word "osteopathic" in their name).

In all seriousness, NYC is a tough city for DOs to match into. No DO school gives you a better edge than another in this regard. This isn't like choosing between Harvard and a low tier MD school. All DO schools fall in the same category. If you want to match in NYC, the best thing you can do for yourself is go to NYIT or Touro NY and quickly set yourself up with clinician scientists at ACGME program(s) nearby and start doing research. Build a reputation and relationship with them. That is the only thing that will help you have a higher chance at matching in a particular city/program.

 

[WedgeDawg]

Please stay on topic and refrain from personal attacks, thanks

 

[puahate]

Please stay on topic and refrain from personal attacks, thanks

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[DameJulie]

How about change NYC into "California"? Would that yield any answers?

 

[KeikoTanaka]

Your first 2 years you will spend studying most of the time. You won't be having this amazing life in the "greatest city on the planet." If you have a proper 3rd year, you will be working most of the time. First half of 4th year you will spend on auditions and board exams. It's quite honestly a waste of your money to go to NYC to live in a matchbox just to say you're in NYC.

I truly discourage most people from deluding themselves into thinking that the city you are going to be in med school makes a difference. I was minutes from proper LA and I can say that during my first 2 years I never visited once. I had a bit more time to see LA 3rd year and I was gone on 4th. Honestly, I would have gotten more of LA had I just gone as my month vacation during my 3rd or 4th year

I had a doctor tell me this before medical school and I brushed it off. Now well underway, It is very very true. Lol. But, I'm in the Middletown campus and if you really wanted you could like train down to the city, but... that would cut into study time, no thanks haha