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Can someone please describe the advantages/disadvantages of either/both schools? Choosing between the two is proving rather difficult.
At NJMS, you get exposed to clinical stuff as early as the beginning of first year. You learn patient interviewing, basic physical exam all in first year, and you can get involved in the student-run family health care clinic from the get-go. Because NJMS is situated in Newark, a city with a significant population at or below the poverty line, you will get to see a lot of sick and complicated patients at University Hospital, and because it's near a major airport, you may even see some wild diseases you may not otherwise see elsewhere. It's also associated with the East Orange VA and the lush Hackensack Hospital.
The big thing everyone seems to talk about when comparing NJMS vs RWJ is location: Newark vs New Brunswick, respectively. Newark is rougher city overall, and New Brunswick has more of a college town kind of feel. But I believe NJMS has better clinical training overall because you are exposed to so many complicated patients.
I can't say much about RWJ. Hopefully an RWJ student/grad chimes in.
For the sake of discussion, is pre-M3/4 clinical exposure that big of a deal? I have seen it be heavily emphasized around here by pre-meds, but also discredited by many current medical students as a meaningful factor.
As far as the more interesting patient population you would encounter, I could see it being a legitimate point, although I've also seen the other side chime in that its not like hospitals not located in areas like Newark don't have those kinds of patients (albeit to a lesser degree), especially since RWJ's hospital is also a level 1 trauma center.
Location is pretty straightforward I think..most students need to drive around short distances at RWJ I believe.
For the sake of discussion, is pre-M3/4 clinical exposure that big of a deal? I have seen it be heavily emphasized around here by pre-meds, but also discredited by many current medical students as a meaningful factor.
As far as the more interesting patient population you would encounter, I could see it being a legitimate point, although I've also seen the other side chime in that its not like hospitals not located in areas like Newark don't have those kinds of patients (albeit to a lesser degree), especially since RWJ's hospital is also a level 1 trauma center.
Location is pretty straightforward I think..most students need to drive around short distances at RWJ I believe.
Can someone please describe the advantages/disadvantages of either/both schools? Choosing between the two is proving rather difficult.