Med schools by Stress level (categorized)

[salemstein]

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I'd like to borrow the knowledge of our SDN community to help formulate this list. Roughly speaking, high stress schools are places where you constantly see students unhappy because of the competition, grading, difficulty, etc. Again, everything is relative. Here's what I know so far either from talking to current students or the vibe I felt at interviews:

Higher Stress: Georgetown, JHU,

Medium: UM, UR, GW, Penn, (or Any school that falls in between)

Lower Stress: Yale, UC's (weather factor?), Brown,

 

[Goro]

ALL med schools are stressful. They're furnaces.

 

[jd989898]

I don't think you'll be able to make a meaningful list. The stress level experienced at each school is far too subjective among and between students. Personally, the first few months of M1 have been much less stressful than undergrad for me so far. n=1. Probably because I have less things to juggle and I can really just focus on class. I don't have to worry about multiple course subjects that have nothing to do with each other, and don't have to worry about all the med school application ECs. Plus my school is very non-competitive and is P/F.

 

[Iz_FtB]

ALL med schools are stressful. They're furnaces.

Some more than others. School culture is a real thing and has a non-trivial effect on student attitudes. Interview days are definitely valuable in this respect. The school gets a chance to figure you out and vice versa.

+1 for the mellow Yale train, for sure.

 

[aldol16]

I wonder if there's an inverse correlation between med school rank and stress level. Personally, I've noticed that students at top med schools were actually a lot less stressed than those in lower-tier med schools. I think it's primarily because the top med schools I have experience with have all switched to true P/F grading and the lower-tier schools I'm familiar with haven't switched to that yet. That might cause an effect. But this is completely anecdotal.

 

[Psai]

Yale is definitely low stress. Can't speak for the others

 

[flapjack3d]

Some med schools are more stressful than others. But from what I've seen on interview trail, they're almost all much less stressful than people on SDN make them out to be.

 

[WhittyPsyche]

Gtown is now P/F, from what I hear from M2, they feel significantly less stressed and more collaborative.

I think this list will be arbitrary, no way to categorize this objectively.


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