Please Help: Msucom Or Western?

[Rover123]

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Hi all you wonderful philanthropic advisors and friends out there:

I'm facing a very tough decision and i have to decide ASAP: MSUCOM vs Western in pomona. I'm a Ca resident and I was offered a non-resident tuition scholarship to go to MSUCOM which covers the non-resident fees. I know MSUCOM is the top school but I want to come back to Western for my residency. Will I be able to do that if I go to either school with the same ease? which one is a better school in general to go to? I dont' mind moving. Also, I want to specialize and not do primary care and I'm aiming for a good residency in california. Taking all this into consideration, what should i do???? Please help!!!!

THANK YOU ALL IN ADVANCE

 

[docbill]

DEFINITELY MSUCOM!

You can do your residency anywhere afterwards.

In my opinion MSUCOM is the number one DO school. If you got tuition scholarship all the best to you.

 

[marie337]

I'd say MSUCOM for sure, but I'm slightly partial 😀 😀 😀 . Good luck with your decision.

 

[Rover123]

Thanks for those who replied... i wish to hear more opinions... also, I correction, I want to come back to CA for residency, not to Western.

How do i get access to the matching lists for residencies for MSUCOM and western?

 

[Jinyaoysiu]

Thanks for those who replied... i wish to hear more opinions... also, I correction, I want to come back to CA for residency, not to Western.

How do i get access to the matching lists for residencies for MSUCOM and western?

I have no doubt that you'd be able to come back to CA if you go to MSUCOM. But you mentioned that you want to "specialize" but MSUCOM is ranked in US News exactly because 80%+ of its graduates enter primary care.

I'm biased but I think Western has one of the best(if not the best)matchlist of DO schools. I haven't seen MSUCOM's matchlist so I cannot make any comparison, but I was able to see MSU's MD matchlist and it seems like they have less placements in specialties unless if you're talking about gen. surg. Western has placements in ENT, facial plastics, MD radiology, MD ortho, gen. surg., and PM&R at some of the nation's best(stanford, nyu, northwestern), and not to mention good primary care placements such as 2 placements at Children's Hospital LA. But maybe MSUCOM's DO matchlist is much better. Who knows.

You be the judge of the matchlists and good luck to your decision

MSU MD 2005 http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=2474545&postcount=31

Western 2005 http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=2421485&postcount=19

 

[NewAgeDO]

Ahh yes,

Those are my colleagues I'm proud of. Go Class of 2005. By the way, some of those specialties were signed outside of the AMA Match. With respect to residency in California, it really does not matter where you go. What matters is where you will be happy locally for the next 4 years. However, because many Western University students rotate through the Southern California hospitals, the programs are more familiar with the students. If you are a strong candidate during the clinical years, the programs may be more apt at considering you since they have already taken a number of Western University students into their program in the past. Just recently the Chief Resident for Pathology at County USC is a Western University graduate, FYI.

 

[GonnaBeAnMD]

Don't you guys think the new rule @ Western (effective this year) that rotations are limited to 2 per specialty will affect the matchlist? My best friend goes to Western she didn't expect it. My allopathic program has the same agenda but I wish it were like the other schools allowing unlimited elective rotations in whatever field you choose. To my understanding, the other osteopathic schools allow you to choose electives as you'd like. Unarguably, it results in better chances of matching at a program after auditioning there. Anyway, it's something to consider since it is a new implentation.

 

[marie337]

The matchlist that you posted appears to be for MSUCHM, not MSUCOM. These are two completely different schools.

 

[Jinyaoysiu]

The matchlist that you posted appears to be for MSUCHM, not MSUCOM. These are two completely different schools.

Yes I am aware of that and I believe I tried to make sure people were aware of that as well in my post. If I'm not mistaken, I posted the list from MSU the MD school, which is different from MSU the DO school.

 

[Rover123]

Yes I am aware of that and I believe I tried to make sure people were aware of that as well in my post. If I'm not mistaken, I posted the list from MSU the MD school, which is different from MSU the DO school.

well, can't i do my all my 4th year in CA? how difficult would it be to do that? anyone been in my shoes before and can tell me???

 

[Rover123]

well, can't i do my all my 4th year in CA? how difficult would it be to do that? anyone been in my shoes before and can tell me???

also, what kinds of hospitals do western students rotate in for their 3rd and 4th years?

 

[mx4]

MSUCOM hands down.