Ivy League Colleges? (Or Equals?)?

I'm hoping to become a psychatrist in the future, and I want to attend a really good college. Does anyone know of any Ivy League schools with a good psychiatry program? Also, I'm not quite sure I'm ready to move to the Northeast, (I live in CA) so if you know of a good college that could be considered somewhat equal to an Ivy League school and near my area with a good psychiatry program, it would be greatly appreciated. If you have any recommendations or anything else, it would be very helpful. Thank you very much!





(One more question: Which is better to have? An M.D. or O.D. degree?)

Ivy League Colleges? (Or Equals?)?
Keep in mind that psychiatry is a medical specialty (you seem to know that based on your final question), so you would not be studying psychiatry in college at all, but doing a major which would fulfill the pre-med requirements. Then you would go to medical school, and finally you would do a residency in psychiatry. The medical school and residency are unlikely to be at the same place where you went to college.





Some of the best schools in California are Stanford, Cal Tech, Berkeley, and UCLA. You might also consider the Claremont Colleges as very strong undergraduate programs. Again, no school offers a psychiatry "major", so you would have to study something else. When it comes to doing a residency, I've heard that both Stanford and UCLA have outstanding psychiatry training.
Reply:The following may be helpful:


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/educat...





Thanks


Bill

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