Best Schools for Pediatrics

[Thegirlfromfenweh]

Hey! I was just wondering what the best schools were to successfully get into a Peds residency. If anyone has a list of rankings they could share that would be great!

Also a quick sidebar, are Peds residencies quite competitive?

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[Brachyury]

Hey! I was just wondering what the best schools were to successfully get into a Peds residency. If anyone has a list of rankings they could share that would be great!

Also a quick sidebar, are Peds residencies quite competitive?

Pediatrics is not competitive, however, at top programs (CHOP, Boston Children, etc), the programs are more competitive but not as competitive as their IM counterparts.

Any allopathic school will prepare you well for a career in pediatrics. At this point, make sure you can get into medical school, and if you do, then decide where to go. It's also worth noting that you might change your mind: many people love children, but dealing with sick children and parents turns many people off

 

[Catalystik]

Pediatrics is not competitive, however, at top programs (CHOP, Boston Children, etc), the programs are more competitive ....

Any allopathic school will prepare you well for a career in pediatrics.

I agree with the above.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Any U.S. medical school.

 

[MD22412]

Cincinnati, Harvard, UPenn, Hopkins, Vanderbilt have great pediatric hospitals

 

[Doctor Strange]

Cincinnati, Harvard, UPenn, Hopkins, Vanderbilt have great pediatric hospitals

... which does not correlate to being the best schools for peds.

 

[MD22412]

... which does not correlate to being the best schools for peds.

3rd year? gotta get them networks


...boviously any schools is what you make of it and how you do on the boards but you need to do clinical rotations, and having a great pediatric hospital at your home institution can only be an advantage

 

[chronicidal]

... which does not correlate to being the best schools for peds.

False insofar as going to one of these schools gives you the best chance of getting into that school's peds residency.

True insofar as going to University of Cincinnati will put you at some disadvantage compared to a peer at Yale when applying to peds programs across the country that are not close to these schools.

 

[Bacchus]

... which does not correlate to being the best schools for peds.

But, those students most likely rotated through those respective hospitals. Its all about who you know when you're trying to go to top tier programs. Pedigree, pedigree, pedigree with a dash of nepotism and egocentricity thrown in. Plus, you need good scores.

But a Penn student would have a much easier time getting into the peds residency at CHOP than any other student in the city at a different school.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Erm... Didn't read the OP too well. I read it as getting the best training for peds instead of getting into a residency.

 

[Ismet]

Cincinnati, Harvard, UPenn, Hopkins, Vanderbilt have great pediatric hospitals

+ Pitt/UPMC 🙂

 

[ComradeDoktor]

The best medical school for pediatrics is the one you can attend most cheaply (usually your state school). Pediatrics and most pediatric subspecialties don't pay very well compared to the surgical subspecialties. By all means do what you love, but I suggest trying to minimize your debt if you're going to go into a low-paying field (my plan, since I'm currently interested in infectious diseases).

Unless you're trying to get into a top-tier university program, pediatrics residency spots are not that hard to get. The academic "caliber" of your medical school will not hold you back.

 

[Pipers]

Cincinnati, Harvard, UPenn, Hopkins, Vanderbilt have great pediatric hospitals

As are UCSF, U-Dub, and Stanford since every one seems to forget west coast programs.

False insofar as going to one of these schools gives you the best chance of getting into that school's peds residency.

True insofar as going to University of Cincinnati will put you at some disadvantage compared to a peer at Yale when applying to peds programs across the country that are not close to these schools.

Not wholly true. Residency is a whole new ballgame. In my research of peds programs, the rank of your alma mater may not play into decisions as much as you may think. Programs are interested in well-trained, capable individuals regardless of where they went to school. As previously mentioned, a student does maintain some home field advantage when it comes to matching at their own program. That being said, aways can go a long way to getting a foot into a door at a competitive program far from home base.

OP go to school where you feel you will be most content for 4 years. Worry about the residency bridge when it comes because you may change specialty interest (as most med students do from year 1 to year 4).