I would be proud, and honored, and humbled

[albaniandoc]

You know what's funny: Once you graduate and work in a practice or solo, no one and I mean no one gives a **** where you went to school. I work with surgeons from Mexico and ones from Mayo, and it doesn't make a difference. In fact some from Mexico are better. I also work with DO surgeons and you know who is better? You guessed, no one gives a crap. It is ridiculous to think that Ivy leagues will make better doctors. In the end what matters is compassion, knowledge and yes experience. One of our surgeons from Mexico worked with his father as an assistant from the age of 14. He was closing surgical incissions by the age of 16. He went to Mexico to get a diploma not an education. He was just nominated doctor of the year. So he was doing surgery when most of the current doctors could not pour piss from a boot with a set of instructions.
And finally, when you submit your insurance claims to Medicare or private insurance they don't give higher reimbursments to Ivy league graduates. They make exactly the same amount of money.
So that diploma from Harvard is only good for... well you know.

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[BNSN]

As others have said, those of us obsessed with rankings are wanting to become academic physicians -- we basically want a tenured professorship at a major research university. So, for us to be obsessed with rankings makes sense -- we want places with big labs, lots of funding, and creative scientists. Those kinds of things are TYPICALLY found at Michigan, JHU, Emory, Vanderbilt, Duke, etc.

HOWEVER, those who want to become practicing physicians are not "inferior" or "worse." If you graduated from X State University School of Medicine and have your own practice, that is perfectly honorable and respectable. You are not "dumber" or "less intelligent" or anything like that. You just want something else out of medicine, and X State University School of Medicine is perfectly capable of providing you with that. In all likelihood, X State University probably made you a better practicing physician that JHU or Emory would have.

So, when people talk about tiered medical schools, they are almost always talking about research tiers. No one in his right mind thinks that a doctor from Harvard is superior to a doctor from X State University. Both are perfectly competent in treating you. Harvard, though, probably trains better researchers because it has the resources to carry out advanced biomedical research.


But, as everyone knows, it is what you do with your degree that counts, not where you got it. So any doctor from any licensed medical shcool is perfectly capable of both being a world-class researcher and a world-class clinician.

That is all.

 

[colin]

If a piece of paper on your wall with a certain name makes you feel better than your peers you are pathetic.

Colin