On the tier list, it is ridicolous to classify UAB, vanderbilt, and UT Houston as upper mid tier. UT Houston is midtier, it is quite a great program, but hard to fathom it in the same league as the likes of U of Miami etc. Vanderbilt is 100% not upper mid tier; mid tier at best but likely "the rest". Residents are from lower tier schools, no one is going to academic, research is not growing. The only thing it has going is Nashville is a cool city and probably easy to attract faculty. UAB is maybe middle tier, but likely "the rest", most residents are from lower tier places, not going into academic, sure chair is famous (but which chair isn't though?there is a reason why they are chairs), faculty are all locale, not famous, too small. Birmingham is a small city to have interesting/diverse population, not exactly a referall center as well >> Good points, but what the hell does midtier even mean??? If midtier means average, then certainly Houston is no where near midtier. 20 residents 30+ faculty and tons of specialty clinics. They may not be top tier, but they are well above average. Again, all reasons why the spreadsheet rankings are ridiculous. << i think it's important to remember that there are people on here trying to spread misinformation... <<agree with this. also, a bit curious this person decided to attack 3 southern schools at an interesting time (UT houston just came out, vandy/UAB interviewed this week); is OP sandbagging? << seems to know a lot about these programs too.... how else would you know what residents are "going into" and that "research is not growing"?
#REF!
<<I have no issue with nepotism. If I have kids who want derm residency, I will definitely make phone calls and cash in favors. That’s how the world works. FWIW I’m a derm resident who matched without nepotism.
just because something DOES happen doesn't mean something SHOULD happen. yes, that's "the way the world works" but is arguably NOT the way the world should work.
<< outing derm program nepotism, for example, students who match at a parent's place of employment, is arguably an important step moving forward to discourage future foul play. thank you to all brave whistleblowers! <Yeah, the tier list is pointless. No need to give it any thought. While it is pointless, I really like there is an explanation why we should move those 3 programs down... TBH the explanation was pretty good haha << There is also a lot of bias since it is easier to try to move programs like Hopkins or Vandy higher on the list since those names have a better brand name... tier list is so silly in a field like derm where the vast majority of us are going to be in private practice. At which point 99% of patients don't give a shit where you did residency. << haha, someone deleted a comment about Harvard nepotism