How Much Does your med school affect future income?

[CardinalAmbition]

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Simply Put, How much does the Med School you attend affect your future income? Does going to an elite med school mean higher career salary?

 

[ChrisMack390]

Minimally, unless you plan on being heavily involved in research.

 

[doc_mcd94]

From what I have been told, where you do your residency is way more important.

 

[efle]

From what I have been told, where you do your residency is way more important.

Which just makes the new question, "how much does where you attend Med school affect your shot at the best residencies?"

 

[efle]

Unlike undergraduate school, perceived prestige of a medical school has much less impact on your ability to match into specialty and thus your ultimate salary as a physician. With the vast majority of medical school graduates finding a residency slot via the standard NRMP, which the last holdout schools joined only a decade ago, removes much of the "old boys network" impact though connections still matter to extent. When you are in practice you will find that most colleagues care much less about where you went to school; where you did training (ie where you did residency) matters much more.

Do you have a source? Is there anything like the AAMC survey of Med schools where residency programs say they don't care? I'm just wary of the "it doesnt matter" since I heard that for a year about undergrads before finding legit sources saying otherwise.

I've also heard there's a lot of Med schools that feed into their own residency programs, so that might matter

 

[efle]

Data abounds that will drown you.

http://www.nrmp.org/match-data/main-residency-match-data/

Match trends would actually not support parity, as the match lists for more elite Med schools are more impressive. That may not support favoritism of the elites as it could be a product of the stronger students they attract, but it certainly doesn't give any evidence that Harvard is viewed the same as Uni New Mexico!

 

[efle]

Examine the annual program director's survey and you can see a quick snapshot of what factors are cited overall (see figure 1&2 page 6/7 http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PD-Survey-Report-2014.pdf))

Ah this says "graduate of a highly regarded school" is ranked as important by half of residencies. I'd guess similarly to undergrad prestige its skewed so the most selective places are also the ones that tend to care about it. At a glance that looks to be the case for some of the more competative specialties vs family Med.