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Is there a good resource (online or print) that ranks/rates the DO schools relative to each other?
Is there a good resource (online or print) that ranks/rates the DO schools relative to each other?
One thing that I would look into is where students have matched into residency. After all, what are you working towards once you ARE in medical school? Just as when you decided to take the leap to medical school from college, you will be taking the leap to residency from medical school.
Match lists should also be taken with a grain of salt.
To the extent that a school is the sum of the parts I could see what he means. Match lists are only as good as the people who are there. But high caliber specialities (if that is what you want to do) is a good sign that these people probably have decent grades, activities and board scores to get them into that surgery specialty or rads. Just my opinion though.Why do you say that?
A match list will tell you this. If you see alot of gas, surgery, rads, etc matches, you might be a better fit for a school if you are looking at surgery.
Then again, sometimes you have to just take the school that accepts you regardless. But looking at the match list as well as clincal rotations are my top two criteria when evaluation schools. Then I look at the basic science curriculum, activities, research possiblities, etc.
Match lists should also be taken with a grain of salt.
Well many schools have a focus on primary care so you might look at their clinical rotation schedules and see how many electives you get, how many primary care, etc. Also, not every school has an affliated hospital so some people have to leave the immediate area of the school in order to do rotations. Such as KCUMB ... only 50% of the class (I think, don't quote me it might be less, don't have the #'s in front of me) can stay in Kansas City, the rest go across the nation to Philly, NYC, Florida, Ohio, etc.What do you mean by "a lot" of matchs into a particular specialty? I honesltly have no idea.
Also, what do you look for in clinical rotations? The potential for "many" electives and close contact to attendings? Is this something you can ask about in an interview?
Thank you very much for all of your help during this grueling process!!!