Thursday, November 26, 2009

Best Medical Schools

Medical School Rankings Methodology

How we rank medical schools

Posted April 22, 2009

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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