Rank list help

[person1234567]

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Hello, I was hoping to get some guidance on how to rank the following programs. Prestige and job marketability are most important to me. My location preference for residency would be Pitt>NC>NYC>St. Louis, however I do not want to be an attending in NYC. I am leaning towards hemepath.

UPMC
WashU
Columbia
NYU (main)
UNC
Mt. Sinai (main)

Thanks for any help.

 

[SunBakedTrash]

WashU is the “big name” here, but I’m not sure I would go there if I didn’t want to live in STL. Just go to UPMC and work hard. They have all the fellowships you would want. No one actually cares that much where you trained outside of inbred academic fartboxes or hiring managers with their own inferiority complexes. If anything, training in the area you want to live probably matters more than rank list pedigree.

 

[DoctorInQuotations]

For prestige and marketability, IMO it really doesn't matter; all of these places would carry the same weight on a CV for anybody hiring in community practice.

You should get quality training at any of these programs, so you should really go by location preference if you want the highest chance of getting a job in that area after training. For your NYC programs, if you vibed with the residents at a particular program more, rank that program higher than the others. It's helpful to like the people you'll be working with for the next 4+ years.

 

[KeratinPearls]

WashU is the “big name” here, but I’m not sure I would go there if I didn’t want to live in STL. Just go to UPMC and work hard. They have all the fellowships you would want. No one actually cares that much where you trained outside of inbred academic fartboxes or hiring managers with their own inferiority complexes. If anything, training in the area you want to live probably matters more than rank list pedigree.

Agree. UPMC is a good institution. As long as your happy with the people there, then go for it. You just want to be busy and get good training.

Forget NYC you might get burned alive in the subway, stabbed or get pushed onto the train tracks.

 

[Dave CX]

Pitt and UNC at the top. Pittsburgh is a half decent place with good heme path and Chapel Hill is seriously nice also with good hemepath. Is Swerdlow still at Pitt? Great guy!!! If you are a single straight male though Chapel Hill would be #1.