UCSF vs UCLA 2015

[Loveteeth92]

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Hi guys,

I thought I would settle and go to UCSF. Then I ve got invited to interview at UCLA and I'm 80% sure I will get accepted.
I'm really debating between these two schools. From what I have heard UCSF clinical training is better than UCLA. However, I am not so sure how significant it is to set the schools apart. I want to stay in SoCal but I am willing to move to San Francisco if UCSF is definitely better than UCLA. Is it worth it to choose UCSF over UCLA? (Please don't take this in the wrong way. You know what I mean!)
Any opinion is greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!

 

[JBieber]

The difference in clinical training is not big enough to have it be a deciding factor. UCLA tends to be geared towards specializing while UCSF more towards clinic but again the difference isn't substantial. All these are just opinions though and not facts.
The one fact you can decide is location. Generally no one thinks one school is definitely better than the other and people who do get acceptances to both schools will decide based on location.
If you want to stay in LA then UCLA if you want to leave then UCSF.

 

[insaneinthemembrane27]

OOPS

 

[FeralisExtremum]

UCSF for SURE. Although I do not have these options from which to pick myself for medical school, I am very familiar with both schools as my close friends interviewed at both and gave good feedback. Of course, UCLA is awesome... Ronald Reagan is a beautiful hospital with great training... but UCSF as a medical education institute is on par with Hopkins and the really really top-notch schools. People are very clinically driven there... whereas at UCLA, things are mostly geared towards research. It really depends on what type of vibe you want. UCLA is a little more distant and not-trusting of their students when it comes to preforming medical procedures during the later two years of med school... and UCSF is supportive of this.

Your preference.

If i were you, though, I would go for UCSF.

I think you may be in the wrong subforum...