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

[bigblubba]

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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.

 

[Hollow Knight]

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

 

[ecobio]

it sounds like youre more excited by baptist

 

[SepticShock]

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!