What’s everyone’s thought on Indiana Univ. School of Med

[39djdjcnd9]

From people who know about it, is it a school that’s headed in the right direction? They don’t have match data that I can find

---

Members don't see this ad.

 

[Goro]

Very fine school.

 

[chlorocruorin]

Top half for public school

 

[Moko]

5 seconds of googling... 2018 match list

Match Day | IU School of Medicine: Medical Student Education

md.mednet.iu.edu

 

[beattheprocess]

5 seconds of googling... 2018 match list

Match Day | IU School of Medicine: Medical Student Education

md.mednet.iu.edu

Whoa that’s a lot of surgeons

 

[chlorocruorin]

Whoa that’s a lot of surgeons

Thought the same thing

 

[beattheprocess]

Thought the same thing

No secondary. 511 median MCAT. More OOS interview invites than IS. 9% of the class matched ortho which is nearly double Hopkins/Harvard with 5%. This is a GOD tier institution.

Bonus round - accepts AP credit. 15% matched anesthesia. Wish I was born in Indiana now

 

[chlorocruorin]

No secondary. 511 median MCAT. More OOS interview invites than IS. 9% of the class matched ortho which is nearly double Hopkins/Harvard with 5%. This is a GOD tier institution.

Bonus round - accepts AP credit. 15% matched anesthesia. Wished I was born in Indiana now

Lmao and the largest medical school in the nation

 

[39djdjcnd9]

5 seconds of googling... 2018 match list

Match Day | IU School of Medicine: Medical Student Education

md.mednet.iu.edu

This only gives the location not how many people matched there. Also I was looking for 2019. Or any other year for that matter. Most schools keep a record of past match lists. Do you think it’s odd that they don’t publish it? I just wanna know what people’s views on IU is as a whole and whether or not doors could be closed

 

[kinjin24]

i couldn't find a comprehensive match list either. its a very good school

 

[kinjin24]

also they have a fairly good step avg. Its a solid middle tier school

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

Indy is the quintessential solid middle tier MD school. No one will ever be able to fault you for going there. You won’t feel like your education was inferior and you can hold your own in any speciality.

It also won’t turn any heads like a top tier would. You don’t get the automatic “wow this person must have their **** together” vibe you have from a school like duke or Hopkins.

No secondary. 511 median MCAT. More OOS interview invites than IS. 9% of the class matched ortho which is nearly double Hopkins/Harvard with 5%. This is a GOD tier institution.

Bonus round - accepts AP credit. 15% matched anesthesia. Wish I was born in Indiana now

Can’t tell if sarcasm, but if not this perhaps the worst way I’ve ever seen to evaluate school quality. Look at WHERE the people matched, not what speciality. I’d be more impressed by a school that had 3 ortho matches at Penn, Harvard, and HSS compared to 9 matches at university of southern North Dakota community hospital, salon, and tire center. Number of matches is really a function of personal preferences rather than school quality.

 

[Select All That Apply]

@The Knife & Gun Club Easier to look at specialties than to look at locations. Not all academic institutions are top tier for their specialties and also it's not always discernible whether it's at the main campus v. satellite campus. Too many comparison games between X v. Y location whether it's at A, B, C, D, E with Z specialty. Yes, the people who are specialists and the applicants are aware of those nuances, however more often than not someone who is unfamiliar with those fields is going to likely misplace a top 10 list if they were given very close programs. Graduating ___ into nsg/ortho/derm is much easier and encapsulates the point that the school is able to match their students into the competitive specialties.

 

[Select All That Apply]

There’s Doximity if you’re interested in finding out “rankings” for residencies. Did a quick search just now and the top ortho residencies by reputation are HSS, Mayo, WashU, MGH, and NYU. I think if you’re interested in one or two specialties in particular, it’s not hard to use Doximity to get a general sense for what the best programs for those specialities are, and see whether your school is matching to those.

Thank you for pointing me towards this.

 

[kinjin24]

There’s Doximity if you’re interested in finding out “rankings” for residencies. Did a quick search just now and the top ortho residencies by reputation are HSS, Mayo, WashU, MGH, and NYU. I think if you’re interested in one or two specialties in particular, it’s not hard to use Doximity to get a general sense for what the best programs for those specialities are, and see whether your school is matching to those.

Based on that, IU's match is pretty darn impressive. I think OP should be satisfied if he or she is attending

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

@The Knife & Gun Club Easier to look at specialties than to look at locations. Not all academic institutions are top tier for their specialties and also it's not always discernible whether it's at the main campus v. satellite campus. Too many comparison games between X v. Y location whether it's at A, B, C, D, E with Z specialty. Yes, the people who are specialists and the applicants are aware of those nuances, however more often than not someone who is unfamiliar with those fields is going to likely misplace a top 10 list if they were given very close programs. Graduating ___ into nsg/ortho/derm is much easier and encapsulates the point that the school is able to match their students into the competitive specialties.

Yes it’s easier but it’s also meaningless. I could also gauge school quality by the height of their tallest building, or average BMI of their core faculty. Maybe it has SOME indication at the extremes but in practice it’s a meaningless metric.

The reality is being able to apply for ortho or neurosurg or interventional dermatology is really, mostly, a function of student goals. You can match plastics from any MD school in the US.

 

[39djdjcnd9]

Yes it’s easier but it’s also meaningless. I could also gauge school quality by the height of their tallest building, or average BMI of their core faculty. Maybe it has SOME indication at the extremes but in practice it’s a meaningless metric.

The reality is being able to apply for ortho or neurosurg or interventional dermatology is really, mostly, a function of student goals. You can match plastics from any MD school in the US.

If I’m interested in fm will I be good

 

[Jeremy Bearimy]

I applied here because I was very impressed with the breadth and specificity of their scholarly concentrations programs. I'm very interested in LGBTQ health and they have an entire program dedicated to sexuality and health, which is exceedingly rare. I guess you can do that when you have the biggest med school in the country!

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

If I’m interested in uro will I be good

Yes if you work hard, develop connections with faculty, do research, crush step 1, and perform well in your clinical rotations and aways.

Which are the same things you’ve gotta do at Harvard or any other solid US school.

 

[JSD2]

I'm an undergrad at IU and it is a really solid choice (my second choice actually). My information is coming from current students. The indy campus is the biggest, but especially with the recent curriculum changes all the campuses have pretty much the same quality in terms of education. The satellite campuses are nice because the smaller size makes it a lot easier to connect with the faculty. The indy campus is big enough that you get all of the experiences of working in a large urban hospital network. You also get a say in choosing which campus you go to, and after the first 2 years you can change campuses if you want to.

 

[39djdjcnd9]

I'm an undergrad at IU and it is a really solid choice (my second choice actually). My information is coming from current students. The indy campus is the biggest, but especially with the recent curriculum changes all the campuses have pretty much the same quality in terms of education. The satellite campuses are nice because the smaller size makes it a lot easier to connect with the faculty. The indy campus is big enough that you get all of the experiences of working in a large urban hospital network. You also get a say in choosing which campus you go to, and after the first 2 years you can change campuses if you want to.

I’m on the Fort Wayne campus now. Kinda bummed I didn’t get the Indy campus, but I heard Notre Dame is a really nice school