General consensus on attending the most affordable medical school

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Do you want a program that just meets the minimum numbers, our one that doubles and triples them, or more. Great residencies usually produce superior clinicians. For specialty fields, surgery, anesthesia, etc. consistent exposure to very complex pathology is critical for superior clinical training. It's what separates the men from the boys. Exposure to these cases varies greatly from hospital to hospital. If your medical center has many nationally and globally known faculty, these cases come to you every day, at the community hospital you're never going to see some of those cases, they'll never go there.

Of course, these can easily be mutually exclusive, so I would caution everyone to look closely. If you're doing highly complex cases, you (a. can't do as many of them compared to more routine cases (b. are more likely to be scrubbed in behind the fellow behind the two attendings.

Do you want to do general surgery and be fixing hernias and bowel obstructions, doing mastectomies, and so on? Or do you plan to do robotic pancreas transplants on cystic fibrosis patients? We need people to be quality clinicians for both, and the training pathway is not the same.

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