I can speak about the Hopkins and the University of Maryland's relationship part. I go to Maryland so this is from a Maryland student's perspective. We do share some professors with them, and I know of several faculty that are considered on staff faculty at here and Hopkins, I don't know how that works though, because the professors that I know that have appointments at Hopkins seem to spend all their time at my school. I know that sometimes academic physicians come to Maryland to work instead of Hopkins, because on average, Maryland pays their faculty more then Hopkins (Hopkins expects their faculty to work for less in order to have the priveledge of working under the Hopkins name, according to two of professors who trained at Hopkins). There are also some joint training programs between the two schools (the plastic surgery residency is a shared program between the two schools, and there are other programs that make use of both school's facilities as well). The two schools are fairly close by location, so each one does try to offer different services for the baltimore area (Maryland does shock trauma for all adults in Maryland, Hopkins gets the kids). There is also some interaction between the med students, we do a community health fair together every year and we invite each other to see each other's speakers every now and then. In terms of total number of beds, Maryland actually has the larger hospital between the two, Maryland's main hospital has 750 beds whereas Hopkins has ~650, and Maryland also has it several affiliated hospitals that are either attached or very close by (the largest VA in Maryland, a very large psychiatric center, etc). University of Maryland has the largest psychiatric residency training program in the nation ever since our merger with Shepard Pratt. The University of Maryland also does the most kidney transplants in the nation, and we have the largest shock trauma center in the nation as well (that's what we are known for in the nation among the medical community). I'm not sure, but I think that we do more sports medicine then Hopkins, we supply the physicians for the Baltimore Ravens (though we do that for advertising), and we advertise for sports medicine a lot too. I'm sure that I don't have to sell Hopkins to you too, but to be fair I will try to point out some of the things that they do more of then Maryland. They do have more of a international reputation, and also they do several times the amount of research that we do at our school, both in terms of clinical research and basic science research. Also they get international patients as well as famous/rich/political figures flying in from around the world as patients, so they must be doing something right 🙂 . I imagine that the see more cancer patients then we do too, even though we have our cancer center as well. But all things considered, there is no real rivalry between the two schools, at least from my school's perspective. I don't know, maybe a Hopkins student would know if they ever get tired of being in Maryland's shadow all the time :wink:
