Question about Boston Medical Schools (Tufts, Harvard, BU)

[ddalgi]

I might be a medical student in boston next year, and I was wondering if there is hostility between the three boston medical schools (BU, Harvard, and Tufts). Do BU students feel shadowed by Harvard? Is there animosity between BU and Tufts students? Thoughts on this?

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[brightbulbs]

I might be a medical student in boston next year, and I was wondering if there is hostility between the three boston medical schools (BU, Harvard, and Tufts). Do BU students feel shadowed by Harvard? Is there animosity between BU and Tufts students? Thoughts on this?

What are we in high school? We're all professionals once we enter medical school and are expected to act as such.

You'll probably be too busy to care...

 

[slowbutsteady]

I go to BU. All is well in Boston, as far as I know.

 

[DoctaFuture]

Remember the Revolutionary War? It all started b/c of a Boston Battle between Harvard, Tufts, and Boston. Boston College was ineligible to be part of it.

 

[wanderlustlife]

Remember the Revolutionary War? It all started b/c of a Boston Battle between Harvard, Tufts, and Boston. Boston College was ineligible to be part of it.

to the OP: maybe there is if you instigate it...

 

[typhoonegator]

No. It's a big enough town. There are a ton of medical people all over, from all the different medical schools and hospitals.

I have never seen a West Side Story-style medical dance battle in the streets of Boston.

 

[xPersephone]

No. It's a big enough town. There are a ton of medical people all over, from all the different medical schools and hospitals.

I have never seen a West Side Story-style medical dance battle in the streets of Boston.

I would pay good money to see that.

 

[samuraiR]

You think Boston's rivalry is bad... You dont even wanna know about Chicagos. I think they have like 5 MDs and 1 DO there? They go hard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSqV0XJkP50&feature=related

 

[iniquus]

They have monthly fights to the death among the lower quartiles of students at each school.

Although this increases the quality of medical students that graduate, it still contributes to the physician shortage. I think a motion was passed recently to make it biennial instead.

 

[rhesuspieces]

Philly? I have no clue how many med schools they have....

 

[ruiner]

Philly? I have no clue how many med schools they have....

Less then NY or Chi so irrelevant.

 

[mdeast]

Less then NY or Chi so irrelevant.

Random fact: 1 in 6 physicians train in Philadelphia at some point during their career.

 

[samuraiR]

Less then NY or Chi so irrelevant.

#winning

 

[b-real]

What are we in high school? We're all professionals once we enter medical school and are expected to act as such.

You'll probably be too busy to care...

I know you're kidding, but you have no idea how much medical school is like high school until you're there.

 

[Pons Asinorum]

Random fact: 1 in 6 physicians train in Philadelphia at some point during their career.

Source? Doesn't pass my bull$hit detector.

I'm pretty sure the students at Penn/Pritzker/Columbia/Harvard are pretty comfortable with there being "other" medical programs in their cities. The "other" programs are probably where the issues arise.