The U.S. News & World Report Mass Exodus: Winners & Losers Edition

Описание: Over the past couple of weeks, the majority of the schools in U.S. News & World Report’s Top 20 medical schools have announced they’re withdrawing from the rankings.

The mass exodus of medical schools from the USNWR rankings raises many questions about what this means for the schools that left, the schools that stayed, the longevity of the rankings, and the ecosystem of medical school admissions at large.

And you know what that means.

Yup, that’s right:

It’s time to break it down, Winners & Losers style.

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NOTES, by section:


WINNER: The medical Ivy League (1:19).


LOSER: NYU (2:31).


LOSER: U.S. News & World Report (3:44).
-For more on the history of the U.S. News rankings, check out Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Lord of the Rankings’:
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revis...


WINNER: Rankings entrepreneurs (5:18).


LOSER: Educational consultants (6:55).


WINNER: Campbell’s Law (7:38).
-Wikipedia has a section on Campbell’s law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbel...


LOSER: The MCAT (8:32).
-Here’s the most authoritative recent paper examining the predictive validity of the MCAT:
Hanson JT, et al. Acad Med 2020; 97(9): 1374-84.
https://journals.lww.com/academicmedi...


PUSH: Honesty (11:46)
-Columbia’s downfall in the U.S. News undergraduate rankings:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...

-Medical schools fudging their primary care graduates:
https://twitter.com/jbcarmody/status/...


WINNER: The U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings (12:59)


WINNER: The OGs (14:31).
-Here are the deans from Uniformed Services University explaining their school’s departure from the U.S. News rankings in 2016:
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1...


WINNER: Medical school missions (15:57).
-This is the best article on the U.S. News medical school rankings that’s ever been written:
McGaghie C. Acad Med 2019; 94: 1264-66.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31460...


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MORE NOTES:

-A version of this content originally appeared on MedPage Today:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/...

-There’s also a post on the Sheriff of Sodium website:

https://thesheriffofsodium.com/2023/0...

-I got a question about whether it’s really my voice at the 6:45 mark… yes, that’s really my monocle-wearing Ivy League dean voice.

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MUSIC CREDITS:
“Clutch,” by Nicolas Major.