How much does a school not having its own hospital/home residencies matter?

[cppsam]

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Choosing between a school that is a large academic medical center vs. a school that has affiliates for rotations but does not have a hospital on campus

 

[Goro]

Sure makes life difficult, but not impossible, for DO students.

To my understanding, there aren't that many MD schools that lack a home teaching hospital. Rosy Franklin, Drexel???

 

[Dr. Anonymouss]

Where it hurts you is your ability to network with the faculty within the desired specialty you want. This obviously doesn't help if your home hospital doesn't have the residency program you are interested in, but this is a world of who you know and not what you know. Networking is the key to success.

 

[Angus Avagadro]

You are always the student from St Elsewhere. You will receive extra scrutiny wherever you rotate because you aren't on the home team. On the flip side, you will get exposed to a diverse teaching model, one on one with attendings, or on a big teaching service with attendings, fellows, residents and students from other schools. The inability to network is a thing and I agree with the above. Best to have a home teaching hospital, but not a death sentence. Just harder for LORs from Dept Chiefs, etc.

 

[Med Ed]

Choosing between a school that is a large academic medical center vs. a school that has affiliates for rotations but does not have a hospital on campus

Large academic medical center wins all day every day.

 

[chaim123]

Sure makes life difficult, but not impossible, for DO students.

To my understanding, there aren't that many MD schools that lack a home teaching hospital. Rosy Franklin, Drexel???

Harvard technically doesn't own a hospital, just affiliates. 🙂

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

There are a lot of things that don't matter when choosing a school, this actually matters a LOT. Choose the school with an academic medical center 10/10.

 

[BTR41]

Sorry to hijack this thread. I also had the same dilemma since I recently just got off of 2 MD waitlists. But chose the communiversity MD school cause I couldn’t commit to 13 yrs in the army. Since my med school has community affiliated residency programs in OBGYN and General Surgery (two specialties I am interested in) would you suggest I try to make connections with those programs early on. I mean going to a medical school with no teaching hospital won’t limit me in matching a quality OBGYN program? Right?

 

[Dr. Anonymouss]

Sorry to hijack this thread. I also had the same dilemma since I recently just got off of 2 MD waitlists. But chose the communiversity MD school cause I couldn’t commit to 13 yrs in the army. Since my med school has community affiliated residency programs in OBGYN and General Surgery (two specialties I am interested in) would you suggest I try to make connections with those programs early on. I mean going to a medical school with no teaching hospital won’t limit me in matching a quality OBGYN program? Right?

Not having a home hospital will put you at a disadvantage, but that doesn't mean you are limited to certain specialties. Network early on with one of the affiliated hospitals that has your desired residency program. If they are within close vicinity to your medical school begin conducting research with that department. This is a great way to get involved and show interest in the field. It may also land you some stellar LOR's and phone calls on your behalf if you impress the right people. If it's not close to your medical school you are SOL until clinical years when you will have to work extra hard to make these connections.

 

[Sephirakra]

You are always the student from St Elsewhere. You will receive extra scrutiny wherever you rotate because you aren't on the home team. On the flip side, you will get exposed to a diverse teaching model, one on one with attendings, or on a big teaching service with attendings, fellows, residents and students from other schools. The inability to network is a thing and I agree with the above. Best to have a home teaching hospital, but not a death sentence. Just harder for LORs from Dept Chiefs, etc.

A lot of good people came out of St. Elsewhere, though. William Daniels, Mark Harmon, Howie Mandel, Alfre Woodard, Ed Begley Jr., David Morse, Denzel...

/s

 

[cppsam]

Sure makes life difficult, but not impossible, for DO students.

To my understanding, there aren't that many MD schools that lack a home teaching hospital. Rosy Franklin, Drexel???

I am talking about two MD schools, one that is a large academic medical center and the other that is a stand-alone medical school with nearby hospital affiliates

 

[hmockingbird]

I went to an MD school that had multiple affiliated hospitals and I liked being exposed to different settings. I didn’t find it that hard to network since they were all affiliated with the school.

 

[cppsam]

I went to an MD school that had multiple affiliated hospitals and I liked being exposed to different settings. I didn’t find it that hard to network since they were all affiliated with the school.

Thank you for this perspective, this is the exact type of setup I was referring to