Are Job Prospects and competitiveness the same for all med schools?

For example, someone applying to Cambridge and Leeds, are job prospects or competitiveness for medicine the same as everyone says?

what about competitiveness to get in to med schools? are they the same eg. is it just as hard to get in cambridge as say keele

I think it would be overly simplistic to say they are all equally competitive to get into.

But, I'm not really sure if you can meaningfully predict which ones will be more competitive - remember that each can have their own selection criteria, and emphasise different parts of the application etc. So one that is difficult for one person to get into might be relatively easier for somebody else.

http://pmj.bmj.com/content/88/1039/249

Although this is only for OBGYN i assume it to be similar across other post-grad exams.

The MRCOG results are very similar to medical school graduates' performance in the primary FRCA examination; as far as better than average performance is concerned, the five medical schools which have shown better performance in that study were Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Bristol and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The MRCOG results are in contrast for the medical schools who have underperformed in the primary FRCA examination, which were Sheffield, Aberdeen, Leicester, Dundee and Belfast.6 There are similar medical school performances in the MRCP (UK) examination, with Newcastle, Oxford and Cambridge being on the upper quartile and Liverpool in the lower quartile of both series

what about competitiveness to get in to med schools? are they the same eg. is it just as hard to get in cambridge as say keele

I always find papers like this interesting, thanks for linking it. They are probably the most objective answer to "best medical school" (whatever that means) discussions.

I think the paper is laid out in a weird way, the way the author presents the paper it makes it sound different to the results. "The candidates of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Oxford performed significantly better. [on part 2]" although technically the ranking should be Newcastle, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh. Alphabetical maybe? Seems odd, when they've presented the data in text in rank order for other sections of the paper (only noticed this because obviously I'm most interested in my med school!)


Seems like whatever medical schools are doing well or badly, it's affecting students across the board.

http://pmj.bmj.com/content/88/1039/249

Although this is only for OBGYN i assume it to be similar across other post-grad exams.

Perhaps this will be of interest... (it's the MRCP results by school & PLAB takers; the most recent one)

http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g2621

I believe the way the MRCP is marked means the differences are not very big, but nonetheless, very fascinating.

I believe the way the MRCP is marked means the differences are not very big, but nonetheless, very fascinating.

No? I thought the older ones that were organised by pass rate rather than average mark showed huge discrepancies - 90% pass rate at the top end versus 30s% at the lower end. This is similar to the range seen in OBGYN exams. I'd definitely call that big. Huge in fact.