Does going to a "prestigious" university benefit you as a Doctor?

Canada does want UK GPs in rural areas but ones who have completed GP training. Taking a UK F2 grad would mean training them in residency which would cost Canada money.

Well since, its likely to be Australia and New Zealand that are the biggest choices. Would you say that UK grads would take up an Australia/New Zealand offer over a UK offer or is going abroad something you do because you can't find a UK offer?

The bottom half won't see any change, but the top half will go up? Percentile 50 stays at 50, but percentile 51 moves up? That doesn't make any sense. Using your own scenario - the two bottom halves are now converging to form 66% of the year. So 16% of those people are going to move up out of the bottom half. Everyone below them will move up also. Except the very bottom person.

I suggest you revisit this scenario and think it over.



You suggest pre-clinical doesn't form any part of the ranking? Or that pre-clinical marks are adjusted based on some test that aims to calibrate the Oxbridge and London exams?

They could do. Maybe i'm mistaken and they do. I don't think so though.

I've also heard, (from a doctor who went to oxford) that she did not have as much clinical skills as other FY1 doctors from med schools, is this true for other oxbridge students. Can anyone confirm or debunk this?

Your degree classification matters more than the prestige of the uni. Obviously however, it may help in a superficial way.

EDIT: Replies please? I'm genuinely interested.

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If your family despite their education/background genuinely believe that a degree from a non-Korean school isn't from Oxbridge or any Ivy League medical school then yes that is quite ignorant and moronic. The views of one Korean family doesn't determine the reputation of an institution worldwide. King's has a distinguished history as both a university, medical school and a centre of excellence in medical research which is better than most medical schools and universities in South Korea.

Also in one ranking KCL ranked 26th in the world (above certain Ivy League colleges) whereas the top university in Korea SNU wasn't in the top 150 so i your claims that people in Korea sneer at KCL for not being reputable is tad ironing.

But that detracts from my point that rankings mean jack all with regards to applying for jobs inMedicine hence the shed load of Asian doctors who have worked to the top of their fields in the UK and US and Canada. Frankly I think what is more important is the ability to perform clinical tasks competently and safely and that's more to do with the professionalism/integrity of the individual rather than the school they trained at.

Thanks.

This guy goes to King's
This guy is butthurt that his university isn't as well known as he thought
This guy is bleating on about King's history as if it was it was his own family's honor that he is defending

For god's sake it is just a university. Go there' get a degree, get a job, the name of the place will be a distant memory to you in 20 years.

Ok hes not butthurt, but actually if you know the medical history King's aka GKT hospital was probably one of the best hospitals in London. In the 1700-1800s even into the early 1900s, Oxbridge didn't teach clinical medicine. That was left to London. GKT has graduated some very famous clinicians and scientists including Richard Bright, bright's disease, Thomas Hodgkin, hodgkin's lymphoma, Sir Astley Cooper, cooper's ligaments and Max Theiler, nobel prize medicine, vaccine for yellow fever.

So yes, King's isn't ranked very well in the league domestic tables, but actually its quite a prestigious school.

Ok hes not butthurt, but actually if you know the medical history King's aka GKT hospital was probably one of the best hospitals in London. In the 1700-1800s even into the early 1900s, Oxbridge didn't teach clinical medicine. That was left to London. GKT has graduated some very famous clinicians and scientists including Richard Bright, bright's disease, Thomas Hodgkin, hodgkin's lymphoma, Sir Astley Cooper, cooper's ligaments and Max Theiler, nobel prize medicine, vaccine for yellow fever.

So yes, King's isn't ranked very well in the league domestic tables, but actually its quite a prestigious school.