Medical students and physicians are questioning the value of medical school rankings after top-ranked schools like Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford dropped out of the popular US News & World Report rankings. Read more about the debate: MedTwitter
When weighing medical schools, Hannah Gewaid admits she kept in mind the annual rankings from."If I could get into a school of higher prestige, then I could have better odds for a good residency placement," the pre-med student at the University of California San Diego toldAlthough Gewaid considered other factors, she ultimately chose the highest-ranked medical school to which she was accepted, Rocky Vista University in Ivins, Utah.
USNWR's chairman and CEO Eric Gertler said in a prepared statement that students turn to the rankings for help in making a key career decision in the face of competitive admissions and high tuition costs. Medical schools that publicly announced their decisions to withdraw from the rankings also pointed to the extensive time and resources needed to gather data to submit to USNWR, rise in the standings, or remain at the top.
The withdrawal of Harvard — which held the top ranking — put the report's shortcomings in the spotlight, Carmody said. But Harvard wasn't the first to pull out. In 2016, the Uniformed Services University in Maryland exited the rankings. Some schools chose never to participate, including most Historically Black Colleges and Universities as well as osteopathic medical schools.
Ahmed Mukhtar Ahmed, MPP, MSc, who will graduate soon from Harvard Medical School, said he hopes that the withdrawals from the ranking system will benefit future students. His initial choice of Harvard wasn't the result of the rankings, he said. His family came from Somalia in 1996."My mom sacrificed so much for me to get where I am, and when I was choosing a school, Harvard was the only name she recognized. It meant so much for her that I was accepted here.
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