@southernIM @Modafinil @Psai I completely understand where you're coming from, and I don't think I have the ability to judge match lists at all. Nothing I'm seeing will change the decisions I've made about the schools I'm considering. However, I had a couple young physicians I work with say that good medical schools generally have good residency programs. Am I to assume there is no truth to this? From what I understand, there are a lot of exceptions of places that no premed has ever heard of but are actually very good. It also seems like there are residencies at top med schools that aren't top residency programs, but may still be pretty decent. For example, would a place like Hopkins, Duke, etc have some programs that everyone knows are terrible and are avoided at all costs? Or are they probably fine, but just don't deserve the huge wow factor that premeds give them? When I look at these lists, I realize I have no idea if that is a top program in that field, but I know it's a well respected school and take a bit confidence from that. Is there any value to this thinking at all? I'm happy to admit I'm wrong, but I'm genuinely curious whether you guys are overreacting to the dumb premeds in this thread who claim to have the knowledge of program directors, or if you genuinely think we gain absolutely nothing from these lists.
