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Dermatology Research
McGaw Med. Ctr.-CMH

Diagnostic Radiology
Indiana Univ., Indianapolis
Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles
St. Luke's Med. Ctr., Milwaukee

Emergency Medicine
Adventist Christ Hosp., Oak Lawn, Ill.
Beth Israel-Deaconess, Boston
Beth Israel Med. Ctr., New York
Darnall Army Hosp., Ft. Hood, Texas
McGaw Med. Ctr.-NMH
Univ. of Calif., Davis (2)
Univ. of Chicago
Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor (2)
Univ. of Texas, Dallas

Family Medicine
Camp Pendleton (Calif.) Navy
Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills, Calif.
MacNeal Hosp., Berwyn, Ill.
Ravenswood Hosp., Chicago
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Health Management Consulting (2)

Internal Medicine
Allegheny General Hosp., Pittsburgh
Alton Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans
Beth Israel Med. Ctr., New York
Catholic Health Partners, Chicago
Cedars-Sinai Med. Ctr., Los Angeles
Harbor-Univ. of Calif., Torrance
Henry Ford Hosp., Detroit
Johns Hopkins-Sinai, Baltimore
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif.
Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara, Calif.
Loma Linda (Calif.) Univ.
Louis Weiss Hosp., Chicago
Mass. General Hosp., Boston
McGaw Med. Ctr.-ENH (7)
McGaw Med. Ctr.-NMH (17)
Presbyterian Hosp.-Cornell, New York
Rush-Pres.-St. Luke's, Chicago (2)
Santa Clara Valley, San Jose, Calif.
Stanford (Calif.) Univ.
St. Mary's Med. Ctr., San Francisco
Univ. Hosps. of Cleveland
Univ. of Calif., Irvine
Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles
Univ. of Calif., San Francisco
Univ. of Cincinnati
Univ. of Massachusetts, Worcester (2)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Univ. of Texas, Houston
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville (2)
Virginia Mason Hosp., Seattle
Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hosp.

Neurological Surgery
Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Emory Univ., Atlanta (2)
Indiana Univ., Indianapolis
McGaw Med. Ctr.-NMH
New York Univ., New York
Univ. Health Ctr. of Pittsburgh

Orthopaedic Surgery
Henry Ford Hosp., Detroit
Lenox Hill Hosp., New York
McGaw Med. Ctr.-NMH (3)
Rush-Pres.-St. Luke's, Chicago
Univ. Health Ctr. of Pittsburgh
Univ. Hosps of Cleveland

Other (5)

Pathology
Stanford (Calif.) Univ.

Pediatrics
Children's Hosp., Oakland, Calif.
Children's Nat'l. Med. Ctr., Washington (2)
Duke Univ., Durham, N.C.
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif.
Loyola Univ. Med. Ctr., Maywood, Ill. (2)
Lutheran General Hosp., Park Ridge, Ill.
McGaw Med Ctr.-CMH (4)
North Shore Univ. Hosp., Manhasset, N.Y.
Rush-Pres.-St. Luke's, Chicago
Stanford (Calif.) Univ.
Texas A&M Univ., Temple
Univ. Health Ctr. of Pittsburgh
Univ Hosps. of Cleveland (2)
Univ. of Ariz., Tucson
Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles
Univ. of Chicago
Univ. of Cincinnati
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Psychiatry
Harvard Longwood, Boston
McGaw Med Ctr.-NMH
Stanford (Calif.) Univ.

Research
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Undesignated (2)

Surgery
Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland
Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore
Loma Linda (Calif.) Univ.
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla.
McGaw Med. Ctr.-NMH (3)
Med. Coll. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (2)
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing
Mt. Carmel Health, Columbus, Ohio
Mt. Sinai Hosp., New York
Presbyterian Hosp.-Cornell, New York
Rush-Pres.-St. Luke's, Chicago (2)
SUNY Health Sci. Ctr., Brooklyn
Univ. of Calif., Davis
Univ. of Calif., San Francisco
Univ. of Kansas, Kansas City
Univ. of Massachusetts, Worcester
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Wm. Beaumont Hosp., Royal Oak, Mich.

Transitional
Catholic Health Partners, Chicago
MacNeal Memorial Hosp., Berwyn, Ill.
McGaw Med. Ctr.-ENH (2)
St. Vincent's Hosp., New York (2)
West Suburban Hosp., Oak Park, Ill.
Western Penn. Hosp., Pittsburgh

Urology
Baylor Coll. of Medicine, Houston
Univ. of Ariz., Tucson
Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles

 

[Ratty]

You can't possibly "rate" a match list. Those matches could represent a student's 1st choice, 2nd choice, 5th choice, or whatever. A school could push their students to "aim low," thus ensuring a higher percentage of matching with a first choice. Or a school could push their students to "aim high," which could lead to lower choices, but at least giving it a shot. It is impossible to guage anything from a rank list.

This is obviously Northwestern's match list 🙂

 

[Sammmeyeam]

heh.... smartass

 

[Scooby Doo]

I don't know why people care about the match list...if you are a good student, you'll do fine wherever. There are some advantages...if you must go to mass gen then go to harvard or something. To me, that match list is nothing. But of course, UCIrvine's match list looks much more impressive to me b/c everyone matches in Cali.

 

[Kazzar]

It's a wonderful match list! :wink:

 

[BlackPuma]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by Scooby Doo:
•I don't know why people care about the match list...if you are a good student, you'll do fine wherever. There are some advantages...if you must go to mass gen then go to harvard or something. To me, that match list is nothing. But of course, UCIrvine's match list looks much more impressive to me b/c everyone matches in Cali.•••••yah I was damned impressed with that too...what's up with that!? no wonder why everyone wants to be in irvine....

 

[BlackPuma]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by Ratty:
•You can't possibly "rate" a match list. Those matches could represent a student's 1st choice, 2nd choice, 5th choice, or whatever. A school could push their students to "aim low," thus ensuring a higher percentage of matching with a first choice. Or a school could push their students to "aim high," which could lead to lower choices, but at least giving it a shot. It is impossible to guage anything from a rank list.

This is obviously Northwestern's match list 🙂 •••••DANG ur an anthesiologist at pritzker....WOWZIE....and ur reply was so kewl..I never thought about it that way!? but come on, schools really cant FORCE u to aim low, to get a higher match list, can they?!

ehem....can u give some tips on med school to me? I'm kind of thinking about anthesiology...but I heard u get a lot of lawsuits is that true?

 

[Jalby]

I personally give this match list a 54.6.

 

[vyc]

personally, i'm not that impressed with it.
it's all right.

 

[Jalby]

Now that I had a good look at it, it's not that great. I think I would consider SC's better. They had more big name hospitals on their list, but also more lessnamed hospitals.

 

[Papa Smurf]

This is definitely not what I expected from NU's matchlist. No offense, but for a school with a reputation of Northwestern's, I expected a lot more. Only 1 Derm and 3 Rads matches? I didn't see any Optho or ENT matches. Seems like Ortho is the only competitive specialty they were representin' in. Weird.

 

[gel1]

Northwestern's list improved this year. The 2002 list can be found here: <a href="http://www.infoplex.nwu.edu/class/alumni/match/2002match.html" target="_blank">http://www.infoplex.nwu.edu/class/alumni/match/2002match.html</a> They have 12 people in Radiology, 12 in Ortho, 6 in Optho, 3 in ENT, 3 in derm, etc. Not bad. I have talked to a few NU students who say that many of the students just aren't interested in dermatology. I think the EM match is especially impressive, but you have to know that some of the best programs in EM (like Maricopa or Hennepin) don't necessarily have big school names attached.

 

[Ratty]

This reply is for WatchaMaCallit-

A school can't necessarily "force" you into doing anything when it comes to making your final rank list. However, when you seek the advice of your Dean and/or Advisor, some may wrongfully either imply or tell you not to aim high because (a) you might end up disappointed (b) by "ensuring" your 1st choice, you will help them in the "how many of our students got their 1st choice" statistic they like to brag about to interested pre-meds. My school did not. They seem to have encouraged everyone to put their dream programs at the top. As a result, some may have gotten even their 4th choice. But, at least they gave it a shot. Just my two cents.

Also, the distribution of particular specialties on a particular match list does not in anyway reflect on the how good a particular medical school does in the match. It simply reflects the interests of those members of that graduating class. For example, if you only see 1 person going into Dermatology, the only conclusion that you can reliably make is that _one_ person was interested in Derm. You cannot deduce that 15 people wanted it and were rejected.

This is why looking at match lists is a poor way of comparing medical schools, simply because the matches represent the specialties, locations, and hospitals that the students themselves wanted. Not everyone wants to go to Harvard, so just because it ain't on some random medical school's list does not mean that you couldn't go there.

If you have any questions about anesthesia or anything else, you can email me directly at [email protected]

 

[Nuclearrabbit]

I agree, the 2002 match list is stronger than the previous year.

The match list of a university can give you an IDEA of how good a school is, but it shouldn't be the primary criteria to evaluate a medical school.
Every class is going to be different, each year will vary in talent, effort, board scores, and most importantly (what specialty they desire to pursue).
Perhaps looking at SEVERAL years of a schools match list will give a better idea of how a school does in the match.
Northwestern is a GREAT school, don't second guess that fact because you didn't see alot of matches in a particular specialty.
And even then, matching 12 in ortho in one year is a tremendous feat,... i'd say thats several times more than most schools. This years match was amazingly good at NUMS.
Ultimately, it's what you make out of your education thats going to matter. Who cares where your classmates go, care about where YOU go.

Hope to see you at NUMS, sam.

 

[BlackPuma]

here u go mister sami 😀

I thought this would be helpful....

<a href="http://www.mcwmd.com/a/matchlist.htm" target="_blank">MatchList for all the Schools</a>

I must say UCSD WAS DAMN Impressive....I hope you get ur first choice bro...u deserve it!

<a href="http://medschool.ucsd.edu/Catalog/126.html" target="_blank">UCSD's Matchlist</a>

 

[Papa Smurf]

I'll agree that NU's 2002 Match List is much stronger than the one posted on this thread. It's funny, coz I clicked on that link, and it turns out that I found a guy I actually know on the 2002 match list. I forgot he went to NU for med school. I have no doubt NU is a great school, I just found it weird that last year's match list didn't seem as strong as the school does. Match lists definitely vary from year to year. I know Miami's match list from a few years back had 8, yes 8 people, match into DERM! Of course, like others have stated, the variation is prolly moreso due to the interests of the class than anything else.