School with Best Name

[unfrozencaveman]

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[C.P. Jones]

Everyone knows Mayo. Didn't you guys see Airplane?

Give me Hamm on five, hold the Mayo.

Come on.

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[unfrozencaveman]

hooray for unfrozencaveman! airplane is great....don't call me shirley

Thank you!

Finally someone who will appreciate the fact that once I'm a doctor, I will wear my stethoscope everywhere, in my ears, so that just in case, someone will come up to me and say "are you a doctor?".

 

[roboyce]

Research. They made the rankings last year, I believe... pretty sure it was OSU and not U Mich

From 2006 US News:

Ohio State: Research 37, Primary Care 23
University of Michigan: Research 9, Primary Care 27

 

[Daichi Katase]

When I first read this thread title, I though of the best sounding name. I disregard the OP's original pathetic post and substitute my own. Which school has the coolest sounding name?

My vote: Universidad Central Del Caribe

Very unique name.

Certainly.

"It is kinda exotic. Kinda spicy. Totally fun."

They sent me a letter that said that. I sent a letter back saying I am totally coming there.

 

[Lorrayne]

When I first read this thread title, I though of the best sounding name. I disregard the OP's original pathetic post and substitute my own. Which school has the coolest sounding name?

My vote: Universidad Central Del Caribe

Very unique name.

That's what I thought at first, too!
For me its a tie between Loyola and Loma Linda. I just like the letter "L", I guess.

 

[DrRads101]

Not to sound like a complete ass but as someone who is further along with my medical education than you. I can fully assure you that this is incorrect.

In the medical field patients have NO idea where you went to med school. Think about it, it is almost all controlled by insurance companies and word of mouth.

Let me explain, Lets suppose Dr. X went to harvard (your #1) and you need your appendix out but he only takes insurance from Company A, but you have insurance from Company B 99.9999% of patients end up at docs who take their insurance.

As for point # 2, if someone you loved was terminal and a doctor from the #108th med school in the country was the world's foremost expert and has done some amazing things but there is also a Harvard doc there but no one likes him. Everyone you know will say the go to the guy who went to the 108th med school.

Think of it like this, ask your parents (or yourself) if you know where your doctor, laywer, and accountant went to school. 99+% of people have no idea. What they DO know is how they are treated and if they have good word of mouth.

Using your logic the DOs would have no business cause they are "inferior"

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[Will Ferrell]

do people really look up where their physicians went to med school?

 

[DrRads101]

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I would say literally 2-3% do. This thread is a complete joke to be honest.

Not once during my clinicals have I ever heard a patient ask my preceptor where he went to medical school, and not once has he mentioned it. I mean why would he?

I guess you could tattoo your education history to your forehead if it is really that important that you make sure people know where you went.

 

[DrBowtie]

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I would say literally 2-3% do. This thread is a complete joke to be honest.

The ones that did in my area would see that the overwhelming majority went to the two state schools so they probably stopped.

 

[ChocolateKiss]

That's what I thought at first, too!
For me its a tie between Loyola and Loma Linda. I just like the letter "L", I guess.

Worst name: Washington University in St. Louis...I hate how I always have to say the entire name so that people don't mistaken think it's the state school of Washington.

 

[OwnageMobile]

Given that "name" doesn't matter in clientele, I do think it matters in other fashions, i.e. Residencies. I would think that it could only help to have a "big name school" degree during matching. Specialties more so than primary. It seems to me that residency is an important step in the life of the doctor, and that it has been overlooked in this discussion.

 

[drmota]

people are always impressed when i tell them i applied to "Albert Einstein College of Medicine". that albert really carries some weight amongst the general populous.

-mota

p.s. this thread is stupid.

 

[BaylorGuy]

Albert Einstein??? He's a doctor???

P.S. Mota...you are brilliant. Hope vegas was fun

 

[indo]

When it comes to abreviated school names I vote for BUSOM.

 

[QofQuimica]

When I first read this thread title, I though of the best sounding name. I disregard the OP's original pathetic post and substitute my own. Which school has the coolest sounding name?

My vote: Universidad Central Del Caribe

Very unique name.

See, THIS is a useful thread. 😉 I vote for Miami Miller School of Medicine. It's so beautifully alliterative.

 

[silas2642]

See, THIS is a useful thread. 😉 I vote for Miami Miller School of Medicine. It's so beautifully alliterative.

It is nice. However, many of these schools are kind of a mouthful, most of them composed of multisyllable names. I prefer my school, Tufts, because it is a single syllable word, is a relatively cute name, and because I can spell it (usually).

Other schools are stupid. Like UVM. I don't even remember what the letters stand for in Latin, but it means something about the green mountains of vermont or something like that. See how dumb it is?

I do like Loyola, a very cool sounding name for a medical school. Albert Einstein gets confusing because you start to think physics and then you're like, "Albert Einstein medical school? WTF?"

Anyone have any dumb sounding names of medical schools they would like to bring up?

 

[TSisk23]

Worst name: Washington University in St. Louis...I hate how I always have to say the entire name so that people don't mistaken think it's the state school of Washington.

Yeah what a horrible school to be confused with....

 

[Beau Geste]

unicorn, seriously, please stop posting these rankings threads. I know you're anxious and eager like the rest of us, but they don't show you off in a very positive light.

I agree. A simple search will get you the info you need. But then again, maybe the attention span in this forum needs multiple postings. 🙄

 

[ChocolateKiss]

Yeah what a horrible school to be confused with....

Haha, true. I didn't mean to insult Univ of Wash...just meant to express the annoyance of always being misunderstood unless I say the entire name...Washington University in St. Louis....so long...hehe...maybe I'm too lazy to be a doctor!

 

[Law2Doc]

Haha, true. I didn't mean to insult Univ of Wash...just meant to express the annoyance of always being misunderstood unless I say the entire name...Washington University in St. Louis....so long...hehe...maybe I'm too lazy to be a doctor!

Much like the undergrad UPenn T shirts they sell that say "Not Penn State".

 

[roboyce]

Anyone have any dumb sounding names of medical schools they would like to bring up?

Personally, I like Mount Sinai...MSSM, gotta love palindromes.

I also like Harvard...HMS. It makes think of the some big British boat...Her Majesty's Ship.

Then there's always Dartmouth...DMS. Man, does that bring back memories of the chemistry lab. I probably went through enough DMS as solvent to float an HMS.

Columbia is COPS...bad boys, bad boys. Wow, that just gave me a flashback to Police Academy. What a great movie. Steve Guttenberg where are you?

The ones that really bother me are the xxCOMs (AECOM, BCOM, etc) because they remind me of the military where COM is an abbreviation for the word "command"...yeah, all you video gamers think of the acronym SOCOM, but there's also FORSCOM, SOUTHCOM, NORTHCOM, EUCOM...ugh, shivers down my spine.

Well, that's enough random thoughts for now.

 

[crys20]

this is such a cool thread 😉

 

[silas2642]

If I was going Caribbean, I'd definitely go to Ross. It just sounds cool. "Ross, Ross, Ross." Where did you go to medical school? "Ross," I would reply. It just sounds so much better than St. Georges University, it's so much catchier, so much easier to say. "I'm a Ross medical student." Wow, what a name.

For some reason whenever I see the abbreviation AECOM I always think of American Eagle Outfitters and start thinking about all those skinny good looking people and how I'm not one of them and then I start getting bitter. So that's my spiel about why you should not go to AECOM. Otherwise, I think it's a fantastic school.

While I'm at it, I would also to bring up that the New Jersey school names are an enormous mouthful and I can never remember which school is which and what the abbreviations stand for.

 

[silas2642]

Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross (screw Harvard) Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross Ross

 

[EctopicFetus]

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I would say literally 2-3% do. This thread is a complete joke to be honest.

Not once during my clinicals have I ever heard a patient ask my preceptor where he went to medical school, and not once has he mentioned it. I mean why would he?

I guess you could tattoo your education history to your forehead if it is really that important that you make sure people know where you went.

Believe me 2-3% is WAY high.. It is maybe 0.05%. Word of mouth man and of course referrals to specialists. THAT is how most people pick their docs.

 

[Beau Geste]

Believe me 2-3% is WAY high.. It is maybe 0.05%. Word of mouth man and of course referrals to specialists. THAT is how most people pick their docs.

Don't forget the large percentage of people who pick their docs because they're "in-network"!!!!!!!!

 

[attaboybambeeks]

brown? yeah right.

UCSF? Penn?

this is such a dumb post. idiot.

 

[diosa428]

I, for one, despise saying "UMDNJ". It's such a mouthful and the letters don't belong in that order! I always want to call it LMNOP or something.

 

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UW is very respected in Washington (not over Harvard though), likewise UBC, UT, Mcgill are highly respected in my homeland 🙂

 

[veenut]

I, for one, despise saying "UMDNJ". It's such a mouthful and the letters don't belong in that order! I always want to call it LMNOP or something.

for some reason a lot of people think that the UMNDJ is only the school in newark, and doesn't encompass robert wood johnson.

seriously though, you would think that with a name like umdnj, they would shorten the names of the two individual schools. like maybe, umndj-N for the one in newark and umdnj-S for the one in piscataway/n brunswick.

 

[diosa428]

for some reason a lot of people think that the UMNDJ is only the school in newark, and doesn't encompass robert wood johnson.

seriously though, you would think that with a name like umdnj, they would shorten the names of the two individual schools. like maybe, umndj-N for the one in newark and umdnj-S for the one in piscataway/n brunswick.

You are right, UMDNJ-RWJ is even better!

 

[unfrozencaveman]

You are right, UMDNJ-RWJ is even better!

Heh. Wood Johnson.