MSUCOM 4th in Primary Care in US News

[eschauberger]

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Hey did anyone else see this? Wow! They even beat out the allopathic school at MSU.

US News Primary Care

If anyone has access to the full numbers or was planning on buying the book anyway would you mind posting them? I'm trying to nickel and dime save money--$10 is a lot of money.

-=Eric

 

[GoForIt]

#4 among ALL med schools, MD and DO included. You better believe that's extremely impressive. I do not know whether any DO school has ever been ranked this HIGH. While one might say this school is the best school, and the other says that school is even better, etc, etc. That's purely subjective. While the US World & News adapts a preset criteria, I think it's as objective as you can expect.

I believe this is the first time MSU-COM is ranked higher than MSU-CHM. Don't let anyone tell you that DOs are nothing but MD wannabes. They are all good.

Too bad that MSUCOM can only accept a few out of staters. Also, the $40,000 per year non-resident tuitition fee is very discouraging.

 

[student4life]

You can get the full stats from the MSUCOM's web page

http://www.com.msu.edu/pub-rel/20030404_ranking.html

click where it says "clickhere for more stats"

 

[SuzyQ]

Wow! Very impressive. Last year I think they were rated 35 or 36 out of all the schools for primary care. I knew I chose the right school to go to next year 😀

 

[DrQuinn]

Ugh.

Although I am proud of the fact that a DO school scored that well in the "as objective as you can get" US News and World Report... it really means nothing. Look at what criteria they use to decide the rankings, and you will realize that about 98% of it has little bearing of what the school really has to offer.

(No this is not sour grapes, I could care less if NSU scored #1 in ranking galaxy-wide...).

Q

 

[eschauberger]

MSUCOM or DMU, that's what I'm choosing between. And while this doesn't like decide it for me, it is still encouraging.

My biggest problem with the criteria is a fair amount of the score is based upon reputation in general--basically what people think of the school--this is sort-of turns the attempt to make it objective into something very subjective.

A lot of smaller schools that are not associated with a big name school probably will never make it on one of these rankings simply because a lot of people have never heard of some of them.

It's kind-of like the mid-major schools in the NCAA tournament. Some poorly seeded teams upset higher seeds. In actuallity, the teams should have been seeded better but because they are teams that most people don't know about (or Dick Vitale just doesn't talk about) most people would assume that they aren't good program by default because they have never heard of them.

-=Eric

 

[Fenrezz]

Those rankings mean nothing!









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(By the way OSU ranked 30th in primary care and 14th in rural care)

 

[ZashJMJ]

What an honor...To be attending a medical school which was rated fourth in the nation for primary care.

MSUCOM...that's what it's all about!

Class of 2007

Jay

 

[PublicHealth]

Osteopathic physicians are the wave of the future! Well, as long as primary care is needed. The strong presence of osteopathic medical schools in the latest U.S. News Rankings is a testament to the notion that pre-DOs and DOs will contribute significantly to the treatment and prevention of disease in the United States for years to come.