Originally posted by Vader:
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I tend to normally brush off incendiary comments such as this, but I had to take the bait on this one. The reason Hopkins is known worldwide by the layperson is because of the hospital, not the medical school. The reputation has to do with having outstanding clinical departments and excellent subspecialist physicians who see extremely complicated and rare cases. In addition, there are a huge number of clinical trials conducted there.
The same can be said about UCSF, however. The UCSF hospitals have an excellent reputation and many outstanding clinical departments. Moffitt-Long hospital is a tertiary care facility that receives referrals from all over the Western region of the nation and some international.
The reputation of a hospital does not necessarily correlate with the quality of medical education. There are many other factors that go into one's education. Hopkins is obviously an amazing place to learn medicine, but may not provide the best environment for everyone. There are many people who choose UCSF over Hopkins for the various reasons that I mentioned in the earlier post.
I think you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone in the medical community that will be underimpressed by a UCSF education. Still, if what matters to you most is having maxed-out prestige and being able to tell everyone that you went to Hopkins, then by all means go ahead.
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oh and don't I like to make incendiary remarks
😉 that is one of the kewl things about being watcha
post something silly and have pple bicker on silly details here and there
hehe,...I'm so evil.....coop can vouch for me there
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