ENMED v Tulane

[williewalnuts]

Hello all - I am deciding between ENMED and Tulane. I am interested in competitive specialists, possibly surgery, and ending up on the east coast after med school. What do you think?
TULANE PRO

• Love the city
• I enjoy the bigger class size
• Matches well on east coast
• True pass/fail curriculum
• More diverse patient population
• Fully optional and recorded lectures

TULANE CON

• More expensive (72k v 43k)
• Hospital where students rotate are up in the air. They just merged with another hospital, I dont understand it
• Facilities are kind of old
• class size potentially too big

ENMED PRO

• Cheaper (43k v 70k)
• In Texas Medical Center - perhaps the highest concentration of medical research in the world. Enormous potential to get involved in research and mentorship
• Administration seems more engaged/responsive
• Very nice and new facilities

ENMED CON

• Very new program
• I’m So/So on Houston
• Matches mostly within texas
• Engineering classes not pass fail.
• class size potentially too small
• Flipped classroom with mandatory attendance

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[DrHorseLovesNeighing]

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[everythingis onfire]

Personally, mandatory attendance is an immediate no from me lol. And non P/F engineering classes is a little much. Tulane does have research opportunities and is also a more established option. Tulane matches into surgery consistently.

Depends on what you’re planning on doing - research forever? If you’re just doing research to get into surgery residency, Tulane has research opportunities and matches into surgical specialties. Also it seems like the new Texas schools are likely purposing keeping their class sizes small so they can make sure their match rate stays high, and I think they have a vested interest in you matching so they are responsive/engaged. So, I’m sure you could get into a competitive specialty through ENMED if you made your goals clear with admin from the start and they could support you. There are probably better, more significant impact research opportunities at ENMED as well.

(Im facing similar decision between UMass and TCU, which is also a newer TX school lol). The fact that ENMED is cheaper makes me almost lean more towards it than Tulane, but it’s almost a toss up especially since you’re going into a surgical specialty, so cost might not even be a major problem anyways. I’d lean towards the more established school that has some name-brand recognition and alumni network, which can help with matching into competitive residencies.

 

[DrHorseLovesNeighing]

Hello all - I am deciding between ENMED and Tulane. I am interested in competitive specialists, possibly surgery, and ending up on the east coast after med school. What do you think?
TULANE PRO

• Love the city
• I enjoy the bigger class size
• Matches well on east coast
• True pass/fail curriculum
• More diverse patient population
• Fully optional and recorded lectures

TULANE CON

• More expensive (72k v 43k)
• Hospital where students rotate are up in the air. They just merged with another hospital, I dont understand it
• Facilities are kind of old
• class size potentially too big

ENMED PRO

• Cheaper (43k v 70k)
• In Texas Medical Center - perhaps the highest concentration of medical research in the world. Enormous potential to get involved in research and mentorship
• Administration seems more engaged/responsive
• Very nice and new facilities

ENMED CON

• Very new program
• I’m So/So on Houston
• Matches mostly within texas
• Engineering classes not pass fail.
• class size potentially too small
• Flipped classroom with mandatory attendance

Did you choose yet? Would be interested in hearing where you’re going!