Medical School Rankings Methodology
How we rank medical schools
Mean Undergraduate GPA (.06 in the research medical school model, .045 in the primary-care medical school model) The mean undergraduate grade-point average of the 2007 entering class.
Acceptance Rate (.01 in the research medical school model, .0075 in the primary-care medical school model) The proportion of applicants to the 2008 entering class who were offered admission.
Faculty Resources (.10 in the research medical school model, .15 in the primary-care medical school model) Faculty Resources were measured as the ratio of full-time science and full-time clinical faculty to full-time M.D. or D.O. students in 2008.
Overall Rank: Indicators were standardized about their means, and standardized scores were weighted, totaled, and rescaled so that the top school received 100; other schools received their percentage of the top score.
Specialty Rankings: The rankings are based solely on ratings by medical school deans and senior faculty from the list of schools surveyed. They each identified up to 10 schools offering the best programs in each specialty area. Those receiving the most nominations in the top 10 appear here.
Reader Comments
high school requirments
high school requirments should be up here....and what your CGPA has to be to get into the medical school successfully......
The accuracy of ratings
The ratings are better than prior years but face it, they are not accurate.
For example Duke keeps getting family medicine when they have few to no students entering family medicine, in fact the schools you ranked ALL have very few students entering family medicine. You should have the AAFP and ACOFP do the peer rankings for family medicine. They did away with their department I believe.
For academics it would be appropriate to rank such things as entering GPA, MCAT, etc. but that should be for academics
Your research should include the medical schools total funding and the percentage of faculty doing research, and the number of publications in peer reviewed journals each year. This would bring about some accuracy.
Please change this to a better system and people are really going to start attacking this. AS you know Fitz-Hugh Mullin is doing another ranking for medical schools this year that also examines their commitment to the nations need.
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