Becoming a medical professional is a challenging, daunting, and expensive path to follow. There are so many different paths that a person could follow – speaking in terms of different medical schools a person can attend – but they all lead to the same place. Regardless of the medical school that you choose, a person who graduates from medical school (and completes residency) will become a medical professional. After all, a medical professional from one school is still a medical doctor in another school. So, what’s the big deal in attending a top medical school, anyway?
For starters, reputation has a lot to do with contemporary society. Most people , including patients, have no idea what the rankings are of the top medical schools in the nation. As a result, even if you graduated from one of the Top Ten medical schools, your patients (and the general public) might not regard that accomplishment as being anything close to a doctor that graduated from a more popular prestigious medical school. In other words, how impressed an outsider is about your credentials, unfortunately, to a certain extent, on the popularity of the top medical school that you attended. From this perspective, usually possessed by a person that desires and relies on having graduated from a highly reputable medical school, then attending a top medical school might very well be a great decision.
Building on the idea of reputation, attending a top medical school has its perks. From the simple fact that the general public’s lack of knowledge about what the top medical schools are, people prefer more popular-named schools that those that are a little less known, however highly ranked that medical school may be.
But, what about the extremely lesser-known medical schools? Why would anyone want to attend medical schools that are not nationally ranked? For one, different people have different goals. If an individual wants to start up his or her own practice, then graduating from a top prestigious medical school is not as important an factor as for an individual who wants to be a plastic surgeon for famous celebrities. In the latter example, the patients that this particular doctor has might rely on his nationally ranked medical school credential to drive more patients to his office.
So, the main point is this: a medical professional from any medical school is still a medical professional. These doctors will more or less, depending on the specialty, make about the same annual salary. However, attending a top nationally ranked medical school can help satisfy a person’s reputation-related goals. It’s all a matter of perspective; and more importantly, it’s all a matter of personal preference.
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