Insider Medical Admissions: Ranking Medical Schools

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Ranking Medical Schools

by Michelle A. Finkel MD, Insider Medical Admissions

Pauline Chen MD has an interesting article in last week's NYT regarding medical school rankings. Probably neither research nor social mission should be the way we rank schools.

And maybe we shouldn't judge doctors on where they attended medical school. But the current system does reward those at more competitive schools with better options for residency. Within the medical field, it's not a system that would be easily dismantled.

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