Becker's Healthcare July 23, 2024
U.S. News & World Report released its annual medical school rankings and ratings July 23 after postponing them for the second year in a row.
The media company produced two separately computed lists, one for research and one for primary care. Both examined schools on faculty resources and the academic achievements of entering students. The research-oriented computation included four heavily factored measures of research productivity, and the primary care computation incorporated two heavily factored metrics for graduates entering primary care fields.
For both lists, the methodology was updated to place the top medical schools within four tiers of performance — based on their percentile performance among all rated schools — instead of ordinal rankings.
This was among the...