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[Gladiolus23]

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What med schools are known for emphasis on clinical experience? I'm looking to apply to schools with good clinicals that focus on a broad range of diseases...could you please list these schools? Are there any clinically focused schools on the East coast?

 

[Gladiolus23]

anyone have an answer?

 

[deleted407021]

Mercer is a good example. It's located in Macon and Savannah with a campus in Columbus as well, I think. They only accept Georgia residents, though.

 

[karayaa]

What med schools are known for emphasis on clinical experience? I'm looking to apply to schools with good clinicals that focus on a broad range of diseases...could you please list these schools? Are there any clinically focused schools on the East coast?

More prestigious/larger/research focused schools will see a wider range of stuff, because they get referrals from smaller hospitals - but it might not be relevant, depending on where you end up working.
Clinically focused schools are usually light on research (it's a common dichotomy that you'll hear) and thus lower ranked by USNWR, and thus "lower-tier"

 

[SN12357]

What med schools are known for emphasis on clinical experience? I'm looking to apply to schools with good clinicals that focus on a broad range of diseases...could you please list these schools? Are there any clinically focused schools on the East coast?

All schools will teach a 'broad range of diseases'.

Schools whose teaching affiliates are large tertiary research centers will see the most variety of actual cases.

The quality of the actual clinical teaching is not really something people here are qualified to assess.

 

[Nymphicus]

What med schools are known for emphasis on clinical experience? I'm looking to apply to schools with good clinicals that focus on a broad range of diseases...could you please list these schools? Are there any clinically focused schools on the East coast?

Some hospitals are fairly renowned for the wide breadth of patients and diseases that they see. These tend to be large, often public, hospitals, which incidentally are often understaffed, which often is seen as a circumstance where medical students have more autonomy. This may or may not always be the case. Some examples might be Bellevue, Grady, LAC, Ben Taub.

However, the reality is that probably every LCME licensed medical school will train you to be a good clinician.

 

[TexasPhysician]

The best for hands-on is probably TTUHSC-El Paso.

 

[mvenus929]

However, the reality is that probably every LCME licensed medical school will train you to be a good clinician.

+1

If you want a large variety of patient cases, with more unusual cases that you will only see once in your career, you're better off looking at tertiary care centers. If you want a lot of cases with more autonomy, then public hospital settings (or VA hospitals) tend to be better at that (in large part because they don't have the funding to distribute the workflow more).

If you want something more specific than that, then please, elaborate on what you're looking for.

 

[Goro]

Every one of them

What med schools are known for emphasis on clinical experience? I'm looking to apply to schools with good clinicals that focus on a broad range of diseases...could you please list these schools? Are there any clinically focused schools on the East coast?

 

[mcloaf]

anyone have an answer?

There's no answer because the question doesn't make sense. All medical schools are clinically focused, regardless of whether or not they have research cachet.

 

[LizzyM]

I think that just about any school is going to give you exposure to a "broad enough" range of diseases -- they have to because their accreditation hinges on having clinical affiliates with a broad enough range. Every school tries to have a few special patients for teaching purposes. (I can recall in the 1980s when the US Public Health Service wanted to centralize treatment of Hansen's disease patients in NYC and every derm department dug in their heels because they liked having one or two that followed up with them annually "for teaching purposes".) Now, as a student, you might not be on that clerkship or elective at the right time of year to see the rare patient with X or Y but in all likelikhood you will see a wide variety of the "bread and butter" cases in that specialty. In residency and fellowship you'll see a broader array within a more narrow field.

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

anyone have an answer?

You didn't get any answers the first time around (or many this time around) because it is simply not a good question, and betrays a poor understanding of the nature of medical education.

Every school will meet your definition of a clinical focus (i.e. teach you and expose you to a broad range of diseases). It's not like they have secret diseases at some schools that the other ones don't tell you about.