How would you rank the Florida medical schools?

[gracesalt]

I saw this post 4 years ago but was wondering if anyone has some current insight.

I’m wondering about:

UF, FSU, FIU, FAU, USF, Nova, UM

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[Hi_I'mPaul]

Depends on the criteria you're looking at.

If you look up US News for Research then it's:
UF>UM=USF>UCF>FAU>FSU; FIU and NOVA MD weren't ranked

From my understanding and research and living in FL, I'd say overall ranks:
UF>UM>UCF>USF>FAU=FIU>FSU>NOVA. My UCF and USF could be flipped but I was unimpressed with USF... too focused on stats. NOVA last only because it's new and their DO school is ight

 

[Peter Pan.]

UF and UM are top 30/40 in the country. USF is going up a lot in recent years. I believe their matriculated MCAT is 516 now. UCF is the newest school in the state besides the Nova MD program but their matriculation is 3.8+ and 512. Competitive school with promise to come but unfortunately they’ve had issues recently with hospitals and rotations. Plus it’s nice to have 8 MD schools in the state. FSU is great for primary care and under served populations. FIU also has a mission for underserved populations and if you’re Hispanic it’s a great program with about half of the class being Hispanic and Miami has a big Hispanic population. Recently they had a great match list. And being from Florida I’ve always liked south beach. FAU matriculation MCAT is now 512 and they recently had a great match list too. Honestly solid options in the state of Florida.

Florida resident

 

[gracesalt]

UF and UM are top 30/40 in the country. USF is going up a lot in recent years. I believe their matriculated MCAT is 516 now. UCF is the newest school in the state besides the Nova MD program but their matriculation is 3.8+ and 512. Competitive school with promise to come but unfortunately they’ve had issues recently with hospitals and rotations. Plus it’s nice to have 8 MD schools in the state. FSU is great for primary care and under served populations. FIU also has a mission for underserved populations and if you’re Hispanic it’s a great program with about half of the class being Hispanic and Miami has a big Hispanic population. Recently they had a great match list. And being from Florida I’ve always liked south beach. FAU matriculation MCAT is now 512 and they recently had a great match list too. Honestly solid options in the state of Florida.
Florida resident

What is the reason USF is increasing in rankings?

 

[Ad2b]

What is the reason USF is increasing in rankings?

New Dean and new requirements; hard screen initially at 517 MCAT - not rejected for that but not put into the interview pile either

 

[nlax30]

What is the reason USF is increasing in rankings?

Not sure any one discrete reason.... I didn't go to med school there but did do some postgraduate training there and as an outsider a few observations:

-Good and varied clinical training sites. You have the typical 1000 bed level 1 trauma center downtown as a main site (Tampa General Hospital). A large VA hospital (James A Haley) and a dedicated cancer center (Moffitt) that area all good training sites in and of themselves.

-Large established public state undergrad university with basic science research and while I don't do basic science research I know over the last few years they have been pushing to make it more of a nationally competitive research institute, both on the undergrad and graduate and medical school levels

-Location. Seriously Tampa/St Pete region is awesome. If you are itching for a typical big city/urban life like in NYC, Chicago, San Fran, etc... you will probably be disappointed as it's not that sort of city but in general this is a good mix of having plenty of opportunities to suburban enough to have some space and of course the weather and access to the coast. While it's in the name "south" Florida to us means Miami, Ft Lauderdale which is a very different area. UF is a great school but in the middle of no where in Florida.

-Brand new med school being built downtown set to open later this year. Right now the med school is on the undergrad campus ~25min north of the main teaching hospital downtown.

-I get the impression that since USF doesn't have the sort of name recognition as other programs it tends to attract fairly laid back people who overall seem pretty happy here.

 

[chemdoctor]

What is the reason USF is increasing in rankings?

Their MCAT is the highest in the state

 

[Detailfanatic]

So your saying Miller is the best school in the state right lol? (I’m biased)

 

[907914]

They're all in Florida. Their rank won't matter in 15 years #goodbyefloridahelloantarcticoilfields