primary care @ mayo and stanford

[MonkeyBALL]

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Hi,

just wondering if anyone had any good experience with the empahsis of primary care at mayo and stanford. Can't seem to find too much on it.

 

[Stolenspatulas]

Hi,

just wondering if anyone had any good experience with the empahsis of primary care at mayo and stanford. Can't seem to find too much on it.

if you check out the usnews list on rankings for primary care... and specifically look at the methods for the ranking....you can use the info. i believe 30% or so of the ranking is based on placing students into primary care type residencies. that can give you a gauge of where the schools are at relative to the entire medical school pool. also if you have a handy dandy MSAR you can look up the residency profile of the recent graduating class (which will give the % gone into surgery, internal med, etc). thus you can get a sort of gauge of their primary care emphasis by how many students end up going into primary care once theyve completed school. in terms of specifics in how they integrate a primary care 'empasis' in their respective programs, i have no idea. try searching their websites?

 

[MonkeyBALL]

thank you much for your advice. best of luck to you.

 

[Lanced]

I currently work at Stanford in rad onc. and know most of the residents pretty well. The residents that went to Stanford say that it'd be a pretty big mistake to go there if you know you want to go into PC. Not that its the end of the world, but its certainly not as good of a patient population as you can find elsewhere, and of course the school itself really isnt interested in producing PCPs.

Hope that helps some.

 

[snobored18]

Mayo is a far better place for primary care than most people probably realize, it is true less than 35% of MMS graduates end up matching into primary care specialties (one of the lowest in the nation...but remember there are 42 students (34 MD only, 6 MD/PhD and 2 OMS/MD) so it doesn't take much to make the numbers look low), but this doesn't mean there aren't excellent opportunities here. Most of Rochester and the surrounding areas use primary care physicians within the Mayo Health Care system, so there are plenty of family physicians, OB/GYNs etc. here at the clinic and becuase of the size of the school and the fact there tend to be a lot of students interested in specializing there are some amazing opportunities available to those students interested in primary care (lets just say you will never be short of people to shadow who are going to let you not just observe, but participate from the moment you walk in the door...). There is a family medicine interest group at MMS that is very active here at Mayo and puts on some interesting clinics teaching first and second years skills in suturing, casting, etc. In addition if you are interested in community care you can take advantage of the Mayo Health System clinics here in Rochester and throughout Minnesota (Kasson Clinic), Wisconsin and Iowa...so no matter what it looks like on the outside there is a ton of primary care stuff going on in the Mayo system.