Wants to Do Med Later, What Do I Do?

[Plane]

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I know MPH doesn't boost my future med application, but I have chosen to do it because I am genuinely interested in public health, and wish to pursue a related specialty. With that said, I am in a bind as to what school I should apply to as far as medical school admissions committees are concerned.

1. Do med AdComs care where you went for your MPH? (ie. better name Yale vs. bigger public health school Michigan)

2. Do med schools like to admit people from their own public health schools?

3. Any public health schools seem particularly good at sending people to med?

Anyone who went from MPH to MD, I would love to talk via PM.

 

[Stories]

My two big pieces of advice for people wanting a MPH to MD:

1.) improve your MCAT score. Bar none, this is the best way to get into a med school of your choice

2.) do a research project (and get a publication) during your MPH. Med schools eat up research. They love it. Even better if it's a medicine paper.

 

[Legna Dliw]

Hi Plane. I am definitely in the same situation as you are. I am genuinely interested in public health and I think that doing an MPH will prep me in a better mindset for medschool later on.

I can't comment on whether medschools give any preference to their own public health students, but a current student at Columbia said that alot of their MPH friends got into medschool based on the Ivy League name (or so they think). This is of course pure speculation, but that is what they think might have given them an extra "edge".