Which is the best medical school in the world?
I’m only qualified to talk about the United States, and if you plan to practice in the U.S. you would generally have to go to medical school in this country. Harvard and Johns Hopkins are consistently at the top of the US News ranking for medical schools. Medical school is really the same for all specialties — you go through the same classes and rotate through mostly the same specialties. The two top hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery (where you might shoot for a residency spot) are Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins, according to the 2007 US News. (So perhaps Johns Hopkins is where you want to be!) Outside the U.S., I’d say off the top of my head that McGill in Canada is a great school. Many famous neurosurgeons were/are Canadian, including epilepsy researcher Wilder Penfield, who taught at McGill. McGill’s Montreal Neurological Institute has a brain coordinate system named after it (the MNI coordinate system).
