Does your medical residency have to be at a medical school?

Do medical residency care what medical school you went to?

• i was just wondering,when applying to a residency do they care what medical school you went to because all medical schools are hard to get into.i want to go for neurology so i ...show more

• Answer:

  Neurology isn't a particularly difficult specialty to match into. It doesn't matter much which medical school you went to, but it certainly helps coming from a school with a better name. You will be at a disadvantage if you go to medical school outside of the United States. You can check out my page about medical residency here: http://www.medical-school-insider.com/medical-training.html Here's a link explaining different specialties, what they do and how competitive they are: http://residency.wustl.edu/ You can check out my website for tips to getting into medical school as well. Good luck to you! Mike Frazier