FAQ: What are the Top Medical Schools?

[Singh.Simran]

i reckon it's a bit naive to say it doesn't matter what medical school you go to and that all graduates are doctors and that's all that matters.

grades aside, when applying for jobs, consultants, surgeons, whoever's hiring you etc, are going to look at what med school you went to and it's going to affect there decision. they may be biased toward wherever they went for example, and in the eyes of the wider medical community surely graduates of certain medical schools will be favoured over graduates of others?!

The current system, it can't even be seen let alone considered, methought?

[Spencer Wells]

The current system, it can't even be seen let alone considered, methought?

Indeed. The med school that you went to isn't shown on the foundation job application.

[Singh.Simran]

But yet you're judged relative to it not the so-called "equal" population.


*slaps head*


Ah well, all will change in the next half decade odd i have to wait. Probably multiple times.

[Gizmo says -]

firstly, judging by the time and date of my last post it was almost certainly written after the ingestion of eloquence-lowering substances, so apologies for its 'bland'ness as you put it, gizmo, although i think you mean probably mean crudeness.

no i mean blandness, exactly.
i would ave said crudeness if thats what i saw, but its not crude, just intensely superficial.

i think you're stating the obvious when you say employers will mainly be basing their decisions on prospective employees on their lives and skills; the point of the quote is that whereabouts one has qualified from will not be completely ignored. For example, PBL divides many people. some love it some hate it, and it may affect their opinion of you if your medical degree was taught that way.

it might if they can find out what skool you went to.

and of course i'm not in favour of medical school reputation being weighted over available skills, that's an idiotic suggestion.

exactly my point.

and, finally (!), gizmo, could you tone down the blind hatred of public school kids? i'm state school through and through but even i think it makes you sound a little prejudiced.

where is the prejudice?
(and where is the luvvie?)

ironically, if and when gizmo comes to employing medical graduates, i'd hazard a guess he'd wouldn't pick the graduate from the medical school where, tradionally, the "posh skool twats" were educated.

hazardously wrong statement, given that i've already said that i'd pick the most skilled appropiately to the job.
perhaps you were simply trying blindly to justify your previous groundless statement about me being an anti-poshie.

[Scottish Chap]

Settle down folks. If I see any more personal jibes, the thread will be closed, and your posts will be deleted. Please keep the posts professional and try to help each other. No more warnings.