The Best Medical Schools - 2017

[peteneras]

Not of particular interest to most medic parents in the present admissions cycle which is still ongoing; but for others watching and future potential medics - out now, the 2017 world rankings of the best universities to study Medicine.

My eldest was ranked in top decile at FY1 application stage somhad absolute pick of foundation posts. She didn't go to a London medical school because she didn't want to. She's not expecting that to limit her career. She gone straight to successful Core Training job from July. She has published and has masters, so outranks her partner who didn't intercalate but went to London school.
Fourth child expects to do likewise but is doing clinical in London.
Best medical school is one a) you get an offer from and b) where the course suits you.

Pete I think most people are just pointing out that the world rankings are entirely irrelevant when it comes to choosing which med schools you apply for!

For many other subjects the rankings are entirely relevant and useful, but medicine, vet sci and dentistry, no, they matter not a jot.

titchy they matter a bit of a jot in that certain med schools (at the top of the list, inevitably) get more first choice posts on completion of their clinical years.

This thread is hilarious.

This thread is indeed hilarious and a bit depressing. The pompous boasting that goes on is cringeworthy.

My brother's medical degree from Cambridge has never held him back! I would not hold back from applying to Oxbridge for medicine. Also plenty of doctors do other things later too and an Oxbridge degree never harms your CV.

”This thread is {indeed} hilarious.”

Oh really? After five months, this thread is revived for us to be told that this is a comedy!

Well, I don’t know about that – had a quick flip through from the beginning to refresh my memory where the jokes were but instead, found comments like “an interesting thread for me”, etc. – not to mention the mountain of information contributed by various experienced posters about the ethea of the various med schools that ranked in the QS table in the way each selects their students for interview, offer of places, way of teaching, their associated teaching hospitals and even brief talk of life after graduation in the form of the Foundation Programme.

When we are talking about schools that train people (or the lack of it) who would eventually be let loose on your, and your family’s entire body, inside and out, “hilarious”, is beyond contempt.

When you happen to be on the receiving end at the hands of a half-baked doctor that graduated from a half-baked med school who couldn’t tell the difference between a woman’s ovary from her appendix; or a doctor who mistook your appendix for a wedge of fat; or someone who’d emerged from a med school not having a clue what injecting a drug 10 times the recommended dosage into your body does to you, then I’m sure you’ll re-emerge with that big grin wiped permanently off your face.

That is to say, assuming you’ll re-emerge at all!

I think the examples you have cited have more to do with the NHS's long tradition of employing foreign doctors from third world countries trained at often sub-standard medical schools: bad for the third world countries they leave, bad for UK patients but good for saving money- they are cheap, middle grade doctors who have needed no expensive UK training and plug the gaping hole in the NHS. I think 25% of doctors currently working in the NHS trained overseas, the vast majority in poor countries outside the EU. The majority of complaints are against non-EU foreign trained doctors (GMC report).
The "consultant" a family member saw recently needed a translator with her.

Any UK trained (or EU trained) doctors will have been through a rigorous selection process and training, whatever UK medical school they attend. Of course there are differences but all should turn out competent young doctors.

Peternas

I didn't revive the thread so it's curious that you quoted me and not the poster who did.

There is nothing wrong with talking about the pros and cons of different medical schools It's the pompous and sometimes boastful tone of the thread that I find childish.