Oh, New England
Yale is apparently yet more of an excellent school than I had thought. It's like Reed, only a problem-based-learning-style medical school. It has a system named after itself:
"The fundamental element of the system is the concept that medical students are mature individuals, strongly motivated to learn, requiring guidance and stimulation rather than compulsion or competition for relative standing in a group...attendance is not taken, and much basic science instruction occurs in small-group seminars or conferences. Students evaluate themselves through optional, anonymous examinations. Their performance is assessed by the faculty through participation in seminars, by an anonymous (but coded) qualifying examination at the end of each course, by performance on clinical clerkships, and by passing of the United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE). In the first two years, there are no grades and there is no class ranking."
That, as a mission statement, is so amazingly unlike most medical schools in the US and the UK.
However, I would have to live in New Haven, CT.
"The fundamental element of the system is the concept that medical students are mature individuals, strongly motivated to learn, requiring guidance and stimulation rather than compulsion or competition for relative standing in a group...attendance is not taken, and much basic science instruction occurs in small-group seminars or conferences. Students evaluate themselves through optional, anonymous examinations. Their performance is assessed by the faculty through participation in seminars, by an anonymous (but coded) qualifying examination at the end of each course, by performance on clinical clerkships, and by passing of the United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE). In the first two years, there are no grades and there is no class ranking."
That, as a mission statement, is so amazingly unlike most medical schools in the US and the UK.
However, I would have to live in New Haven, CT.