Which School Has the best teaching Hospital?

[verbalassasin]

I think USC county by far is the best teaching hospital in the nation........if you don't see it here it doesn't exist

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[doctorcynical]

Depends on the specialty

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by verbalassasin
I think USC county by far is the best teaching hospital in the nation........if you don't see it here it doesn't exist

If your criteria for best teaching hospital is seeing a variety of rare cases, then I think USC doesnt even compare to Mayo, Hopkins, Harvard affiliates, UCSF, Duke, Texas Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic... I could probably name some more.

The thing is, I think all teaching hospitals are good, and at the level of med student, I doubt exotic zebras are going to be assigned to you as an MS3

 

[neuropain]

I would have to say that schools such as NYU and SUNY-Downstate have GREAT teaching hospitals...

Bellevue and Kings County, respectively!

 

[fullefect1]

Harvard. mostly because the neuro-surgeons removed a tumor from my mother. I really like the atmosphere of MGH, but of course i really do not know much about anyone other teaching hospitals so i should not really have any say in the post.

 

[Jalby]

Depends on what kind of teaching you are talking about. At USC you definately would see more and get to do more than most other places, but at some schools they have more cutting edge stuff that they do. And also how much you get taught at schools matters. Some places, the students are hands on and get's to do a learn more proceedures than other schools (USC would fall here)


As far as residency, if you go to USC, you would get a lot more exotic proceedures and wouldn't just be doing hip replacements all day due to the different patient populations that go to the different schools. So our school is strong in the surgery departments, ER, and stuff like that, but weak in family practice and stuff like that. So really you would need to phrase your question differently and you would get tons of different answers.

As for other hospitals that are like USC's county, University of Chicago has a great one, Tulance (and LSU New Orleans) has Charity, there is one in New York that I forget the school, but we have one of the biggest county facilities in the nation. Of course, we also have a great private program. (diverging a bit) Our county hospital has 700 beds, and our private has 300 with 150 opening in one year (compared to UCLA's total of 500)

 

[pbehzad]

No doubt Emory has the best. Nothing compares to Grady!!! Heart of downtown Atl, you see everything there and since there is a shortage of doctors, they give med students alot more responsibility. Gotta love the capital of the Dirty South.

 

[Taleof50]

totally agree. Emory's Grady Hospital gets everything.

 

[Andrew_Doan]

Originally posted by verbalassasin
I think USC county by far is the best teaching hospital in the nation........if you don't see it here it doesn't exist

Hopkins of course... I'm not biased either. 😉

 

[Kalel]

From a patient's perspective, I think that Mayo is probably the best teaching hospital/has the best rep out there. I've never been out there, but they pull patients from all over, including international patients as well as VIP's who are much closer to other prestigious teaching hospitals (I think George Bush even went there from texas for something). Hopkins also has an international VIP draw, but a lot of their local patients are drawn off by Maryland and it has a lot of other top tier teaching hospitals that are within driving distance to steal their interesting pathology as well. Mayo is in the middle of nowhere; if you have something weird and live in the midwest, you will probably be driving/flying to Mayo for diagnosis and treatment. On the east coast, you can hit a major teaching hospital every 100 miles or so. I would say that one of the Harvard hospitals would be number one too, but I suspect that their wealth of pathology is too spread out among the Harvard affiliate hospitals (MGH, BW, BID) and the other prominent boston hospitals in the region. Anyways, this is just my opinion. I've never been out to Mayo, so I don't know how strong their facilities are.

 

[ewing]

I think UMiami / Jackson Memorial deserves to mentioned along with the other hospitals in this thread. It's a well-funded, cutting-edge public hospital. Something of a rarity. And they have over 100,000 ED visits a year, something that only two or three hospitals can say.

 

[Da Vinci2]

If you simply want to see the widest range of pathology, any of the county hospitals will do (UTSW, Miami, USC, Cook County... etc). But, if you want to see zebras, you need places like Mayo, Hopkins, Duke... etc. But as a medical student, the hopsital doesn't matter that much since you are still a medical student. The hopsital matters when you are a resident, when you are really practicing how to be a doctor. If you are trying to pick which school to go to, concentrate on the rep/education/location/tuition, then consider the hosptial.