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Hello All,
I just wanted to ask those of you already in medical school, how important is it that you're extremely comfortable with the surrounding environment when you first enter medical school. I'm a city boy at heart, but now I'm deciding between Dartmouth, a school with a great reputation, and Jefferson, a school with just a solid reputation. I have a feeling that the academics might be slightly better at Dartmouth, but I'm worried about the extremely rural setting there. I'm not a very outdoorsy-kinda guy, and I enjoy having good food at restaurants, going to a club for a couple of drinks once in a while, etc. However, I do tend to adjust wherever I am, but four years in a rural setting has really had me worried lately. I'm also worried that Dartmouth may not expose me to the kind of medicine (urban cases) that I plan to work with in the future. And I do know that at Dartmouth you have away rotations that send us pretty far, so I don't know how that is to deal with as well.
For those of you in medical school, does it even matter in the end? Is it more worth it to go where you think the education might be a little better, or where you just feel more comfortable with your surroundings? Do you really ever get to enjoy those surroundings, or is medical school so intense that it really doesn't tend to matter? How well will my board scores correlate with where I go if I work hard at both places? And if you do go to school in a city, do you get better exposure to urban medicine than if you're in a rural setting, or does it all balance out in the end with the away rotations and such? If anyone can give me some general thoughts on my dilemma, I would really appreciate it...
I just wanted to ask those of you already in medical school, how important is it that you're extremely comfortable with the surrounding environment when you first enter medical school. I'm a city boy at heart, but now I'm deciding between Dartmouth, a school with a great reputation, and Jefferson, a school with just a solid reputation. I have a feeling that the academics might be slightly better at Dartmouth, but I'm worried about the extremely rural setting there. I'm not a very outdoorsy-kinda guy, and I enjoy having good food at restaurants, going to a club for a couple of drinks once in a while, etc. However, I do tend to adjust wherever I am, but four years in a rural setting has really had me worried lately. I'm also worried that Dartmouth may not expose me to the kind of medicine (urban cases) that I plan to work with in the future. And I do know that at Dartmouth you have away rotations that send us pretty far, so I don't know how that is to deal with as well.
For those of you in medical school, does it even matter in the end? Is it more worth it to go where you think the education might be a little better, or where you just feel more comfortable with your surroundings? Do you really ever get to enjoy those surroundings, or is medical school so intense that it really doesn't tend to matter? How well will my board scores correlate with where I go if I work hard at both places? And if you do go to school in a city, do you get better exposure to urban medicine than if you're in a rural setting, or does it all balance out in the end with the away rotations and such? If anyone can give me some general thoughts on my dilemma, I would really appreciate it...