Pediatrics From NY best School

[brookesoccer17]

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I am currently thinking about PCOM or NYCOM for pediatrics. Can anyone offer any other schools or what school might be the best? Thanks

 

[christina30]

I am currently thinking about PCOM or NYCOM for pediatrics. Can anyone offer any other schools or what school might be the best? Thanks

Pediatrics isn't exactly a competitive field, so I think you'd get a decent education and have no problem getting a peds residency from either of these schools - or probably any DO school for that matter.

 

[brookesoccer17]

Thanks...any suggestions as to which school gives the best education?

 

[DrWBD]

Thanks...any suggestions as to which school gives the best education?

For primary care in NY State:
US News Rankings

 

[WestcoastMedicine]

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The primary care rankings are ok, just remember 50% of people do outpatient or hospitalist peds, which I realize is what most people think of when they think of peds. The other half are not primary care, ie PICU, NICU, Peds ED, Peds GI, Peds Cardio, Peds Endo, Peds Pulm, etc.....

Unfortunately, most DO schools dont give you great exposure during your required peds time aside from outpatient peds. Some will let you get some inpatient peds experience or newborn nursery time, but if your really interested I would use elective to do some inpatient peds. Most peds internships are 7-8 months of inpatient wards. It gets more outpatient/elective heavy your second two years.

 

[brookesoccer17]

Which schools in the Northeast do you think have the best affiliations for this experience?

 

[WestcoastMedicine]

Unless you are dead set on general peds, I think you need to do your residency at a University hospital setting for pediatrics. That is where most of the major children's hospitals are. Most of these are where there are allopathic medical schools. You can easily do an elective rotation at any during your fourth year of medical school. I am not aware of(not to say it doesn't exist) any DO schools that send their 3rd year students to a childrens hospital for their 3rd year peds rotation.

Geisinger in PA has a combined DO/MD program and you can do your third year peds rotation there from PCOM and LECOM I believe. I don't know much about the NYC programs, there are a ton of them that exist and I didn't apply there.



I dont know where NYCOM or UMDNJ do their peds months. UMDNJ may go allow you to go to Cooper which has a small peds unit, but does have a decent number of subspecialists. NYCOM I am not sure where they do their rotations for peds, they don't have a dept of pediatrics though even listed on their website that I see. UNECOM I don't know much about. There is a peds program at Maine Med center that has some DOs in it.

For the DO world I am not sure there are schools there are necessarily pediatric "powerhouses" like the allopathic world where specific schools are known for peds mainly because they have huge freestanding children's hospitals at the school.
Most osteopathic schools will atleast have outpatient peds clinics, but are unlikely to have ped subspecialists directly at the school itself.

I would pick a good do school thatyou will get a solid education at. If your in philly or new york or wherever in the northeast you are looking contact faculty at the local children's hospital and build a rapport with them. Shadow them in your first and second year, get involved in research or volunteering there so you can make connections. Like I saidyour 3rd year peds month will most likely be outpatient. I would then use your fourth year elective to do a few away Peds SubIs. YOu can also attend AAP conferences, maybe run for a student board position.

I don't think you need to take USMLE as I know people who interviewed at virtually every MD program without it. I would just get solid letters from faculy at bigger peds programs and get involved like I said from early on.

Overall Peds is DO friendly, if you want to go to UCSF, CHOP or Boston you might need to have a masters degree a ton of research and have invented a new vaccine, but its possible, I know people who have atleast interviewed at these places.

 

[dozitgetchahi]

In the case of UMDNJ-SOM, the peds rotation consists of 2 weeks at Kennedy-Washington Township, 2 weeks at the Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, and 2 weeks in outpatient clinics. Lourdes and Kennedy are certainly inpatient rotations, but both institutions are far from being peds "powerhouses".