Medical School. Primary Care/Research?

i want to be a surgeon.. should i go to a school that top ranks in primary care or research?

Medical School. Primary Care/Research?
It deepens on you....if you go to a primary care school, you learn more about how to deal directly with people as well as how to be a surgeon. If you attend a research institution, you learn how to be a surgeon, but you also are involved in some cutting edge technologies and research that could be of great benefit to your career.





If I was just going to med school to become a family doctor, I would go to a school that specialized in primary care, but if I was going to specialize (i.e surgeon) I would definitely want to go to a research institution.
Reply:The two main differences between primary and research institutions are this: 1: Research institutions prefer applicants with advanced degrees and primary care institutions prefer applicants with demonstrations of passion and compassion. 2: At a research institution, the research is a required component of your education and at a primary care institution, it is an elective.





While there are always some exceptions, for the most part it is safe to say that medical students are exposed to research versus medical students doing research. The types of research going on is so varied that it is impossible to list. If you do want to do research and there is a special area of interest to you, you're going to have to search for the school that's involved in it.