Best Med School for Peds?

[FutureDoctor19]

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Which schools have strong Peds programs? (that are not Ivy league)😕

 

[amy73]

Hi,

I hear that childrens hospital of wisconsin has one of the best peds programs ... the medical here is MCW

Bye
Amy

 

[dumbest premed]

National Pediatric College of Medicine (NPCOM). This school offers one of the finest pediatrics training programs in the country. Most of its graduates match into their first choice, if not second, for their pediatrics residency. The school is very selective, and accepts only 30 applicants per year. They do not use amcas. If you want to be a competitive applicant, keep your gpa above 3.7 and your mcat above 35. Also, be sure to exhibit an interest in pediatrics during college. Do lots of pediatrics-involved work as part of your ec's. Good luck.

 

[osler]

is NPCOM an accredited school?

 

[dumbest premed]

Originally posted by osler
is NPCOM an accredited school?

Of course! Read my previous post...do you think people would be matching into such great residencies if it wasn't?

 

[FutureDoctor19]

where is this school located? I tried doing a internet search nothing came out

 

[FutureDoctor19]

theres no med school named National Pediatric College of Medicine in the US

 

[PublicHealth]

Originally posted by osler
is NPCOM an accredited school?

The person who wrote the post about NPCOM is called "dumbest premed." Probably for a reason.

 

[FutureDoctor19]

guess he wont be getting into harvard

 

[mamadoc]

(sigh)

FutureDoc, you walked into that one. Every medical school will give you pretty much the same thing - an eight-week rotation in peds during your third year. The rankings for schools in specialty areas are for their residency programs, not their undergraduate medical education.

If you end up wanting to do Peds (and be aware that you could change your mind while you're doing your third year rotations), you'll get the chance to do fourth-year electives at pretty much any place you are interested in, and then you'll get to research good peds programs for residency. That's when your question will become significant.

 

[tBw]

what mamadoc said. with one caveat: some schools have their peds program integrated into a regular hospital ie just one floor of a hospital. Other schools do their peds rotations through hospitals exclusively set up for children (ie usually called childrens hospital...). peds residents always told me the latter would give much better exposure and probably have attracted better doctors (of course being better 'doctors' doesn't *necessarily* mean better teachers but anyway)

 

[lakeaustin]

Originally posted by PublicHealth
The person who wrote the post about NPCOM is called "dumbest premed." Probably for a reason.

 

[dumbest premed]

At least it worked for a while

 

[thackl]

I wonder how long futuredoc spent looking for NPCOM. 😕

You should have known. He gave you clues: "3.7/35+, top residencies and COM". It just doesn't add up 😀

OK, now some DO is going to come assassinate me. I was kidding 😍

 

[secretstang19]

Check out the University of Cincinnati - the children's hospital there is INCREDIBLE. Dartmouth also has a cool children's hospital within the Dartmouth-Hitchcock hospital, so you might want to look at that, too.

 

[MeowMix]

If you're at all interested in pediatric heart surgery, I strongly recommend "Walk on Water," (by Michael Ruhlman, 2003) which is about pediatric heart surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic. I found it at the library and it's really well-written and interesting. You can also learn a lot about the circulatory system by reading it (a fun way to study for the MCAT!).

 

[ducam]

what is the path to becoming a pediatric heart surgeon? What residencies do you have to do? Does anyone know if you can be come one through HPSP or USUHS?

 

[jay c]

The best advice I have is:

don't pick your med school for the residency program
don't pick your residency for the fellowship program.

The reasons are:

1) if you do well, you will go where you want to go anyway.
2) as a student, you will change your mind.

i'm a 2nd year GI fellow. during med school, i thought i wanted to do CT surgery, then ortho, then medicine - pulmonary critical care, then endocrine, then GI.

 

[Lara]

For peds, I would suggest going to scutwork.com and getting an idea as to the various residency programs available. Ideally I think you'd want to attend a school that has an associated residency program in a major children's hospital.

Here are some US News hospital rankings:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/nycu/health/hosptl/rankings/specreppedi.htm

They should be taken with a grain of salt, but it's probably safe to say that rotating through any of these places would be a good experience. Two caveats are 1) that you can get a top residency even at a school with a "lesser" peds rotation (ex. Temple matched four students at CHOP this year), and 2) you might always change your mind later, so don't let this be your sole reason for picking the school.

Hope this helps!

 

[carrigallen]

as other posters have suggested, it may be a bit early to be thinking about this. I also don't think that it is possible to say one med school is "the best" for X, and another is "the worst". However, schools like the university of washington, oregon health sciences university, medical college of wisconsin have hospitals known for this field.

BTW, i really believed the highly competitive NPCOM for a minute or two.