Where you do residency matters?

[Miko]

A medical student here in the states told me that where you finish your residency does matter. If you finish in just any hospital, and try to get a job at a good University hospital, they would turn you down just because you didn't go to a well known/good hospital for your residency.

What do you guys know about this? Seems logical to me, but haven't really thought about it this way...life comes hard even after residency.

[tRmedic21]

It depends. If you are trying to get a job as teaching faculty at Harvard and you went to a Caribbean medical school and did your residency in FP at Podunk General Hospital in Whatchahoolie, Alabama... then yeah, I'd imagine it would make a difference! And also the same goes for getting into a fellowship. The more prestigious your training, the more competitive you will be for future job opportunities.

Doesn't this seem kinda common sense?

[teratos]

It depends. If you are trying to get a job as teaching faculty at Harvard and you went to a Caribbean medical school and did your residency in FP at Podunk General Hospital in Whatchahoolie, Alabama... then yeah, I'd imagine it would make a difference! And also the same goes for getting into a fellowship. The more prestigious your training, the more competitive you will be for future job opportunities.

Doesn't this seem kinda common sense?

You act like common sense is common....

I think I can remember a time when all of us had this on our walls.

http://images.despair.com/products/demotivators/cluelessness.jpg

[brob311]

Residency holds a lot more weight than where you went to Med school

[jim]

residency, and passing your boards(not USMLE, though that is very important, obviously) are the most important factors of a medical career. if you do IM at mass general/harvard, but fail ABIM boards, thats bad. but much worse is if you do it at podunk general and fail also(more likely, as pass rates , i suspect, at podunk are lower)