what does this have to do with overinflating a residency? steph is right, new students or prospectives need to know that residency programs are not the same in competitive value and this kind of thing, if he is not at yale, may give prospective students false hopes and make current students gloating about it seem silly. i admit when i saw griffin hospital on our affiliated hospital list i was impressed....live and learn

no one is saying that SMU is a bad school or that the admin is lying, just that if it is an affiliated hospital it is no bigger deal than matching at any community or county hospital to those who know....

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I see light at the end of the tunnel!!!...wait a minute its just another freakin tunnel!

The Yale vs Yale "affiliated" situation makes sense to me. Here is a newbie question. I was udner the impression that if you trained at a "Yale affiliated" hospital, your residency training certificate is issued from Yale. Am I correct on this? Please advise.

you're missing the point. if you are not directly at yale but rather you are at a yale affiliated hospital you are misleading people by telling them you are at yale.....case closed they are not the same.....go to the different hospitals and see for yourself

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some swimmer from Ct
the problem with the gene pool is that there are no lifeguards.....and we have been offering swimmies

Why dont we all wait for JUNI to speak with Dr. P and find out for sure if it is YALE or an affiliated hospital....relax guys.

Could not have said it better myself.

YALE IS YALE !!!!

and yale affiliated is NOT YALE

Enough with the Yale affiliated. Lets just wait for juni to find out for us tomorrow. Then we can all rub it in to the naysayers.

I am almost positive it is YALE (and not yale affiliated)!!

this is most certainly true.

however everyone is really getting bent out of shape for nothing. I dont think there is anything deliberately misleading going on here. its an education thing. guys, find something more serious to get riled up about and let those who can find out the details of this make-or-break topic.

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If you get a warning, put on yer manpants and stop whining about it.

lol not much of a make or break topic.. more silly than anything else... SMU wont be any less of a school if its yale affiliated or yale proper.. dont really make a difference what the answer is.. but i guess it is important for ppl out their to recognize that there is a difference.. just for their own sake when they are looking at programs and evaluating em for their own match..

Guys,
If we play odds, the "Yale" that we're talking about is more likely an SMU student at a Yale-affiliated hospital (pretty much every hospital in CT is) as swimguy said.

Just how some people hyped up an SMU-Harvard connection.... when in actuality it wasnt a connection that SMU had EARNED, it was just SMU working with Harvard INTERNATIONAL (which Harvard International does business with sooo many schools and companies).

I think that possibly some students got the wrong idea and just heard the words "Yale" and "SMU student" and put some pieces together that most likely are not what they were thinking. It was probably by accident as they didnt know any better.