LMUDCOM Knoxville (Lincoln Memorial) vs Baptist University (BUCOM)

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Both:

  • Have federal loans
  • Are OOS for me (both 7 hours away from home town)
  • Graded
I personally would hope to match something competitive and hopefully somewhere in midwest (chicago ish). Baptist is too new so im not sure if i should take a gamble.




LMU-DCOM:

Pros:
  • Residency matches are impressive, always >99%,
  • Historically has a decent reputation
Cons:
  • Most expensive (by about 7k per year)
  • Rotation sites are all over the place, would really love to not move in year 3/4
  • Primary care focused, would love to match into a specialty or a competitive IM fellowship (i think they have the most primary care physicians graduates)
  • Lots of negative opinions recently, opening a 3rd campus already, weird ambiguous mandatory attendance policy
  • Cant do research if under a 3.0 (these seemed like a red flag to me tbh, basically gatekeeping from competitive specialties)
  • No teaching hospital access
  • No affiliated residencys
  • Not mandatory attendance but if you have under a 3.0 then it is mandatory attendance
  • Have heard of high attrition, but I am not too sure tbh.



Baptist:

Pros:
  • the school is in the medical district, surrounded by hospitals
  • Clinical hasn’t happened yet, but the sites look very promising
  • connected to Baptist health systems which has their own residency
  • may have more opportunities for clinical research
  • affiliated residencys in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Radiology, and General Surgery.
  • slight cheaper (52K year) (7k cheaper)
  • slightly lower COL
Cons:
  • New school, I will be 2nd class. No board or match data.
 
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I’m not familiar with the other school but LMU DCOM does not have a good reputation, I’m not sure why you think that. All the residents we get from there are super weak
 
it sounds like youre more excited by baptist
 
Baptist has been a blessing and I'm glad I chose this school over others. I'm about to start second year. Feel free to message if you have more questions!! Congrats!
 
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