<p>Are there any other rakings for medical schools out there?</p>
<p>U.Va. took a back-slide there LOL</p>
<p>anything else?</p>
<p>Why does anyone care about more rankings? Any top 25 or so med school should be equally ranked IMO (not saying they are all the same, but I think it is silly to "rank" them). Maybe this is an overstatement but whatever, med school isn't like undergrad, anyone that goes through an American MD program must be trained the same to a certain degree... I think location and research vs. primary care should be the primary focus and money should be your focus on where to apply, not a numerical rank.</p>
<p>It's unclear to me what else you want in a ranking. The NIH is more of a list than a ranking per se as it measures the research funding a medical school receives. The US News ranking combines research funding with student quality and is a decent measure of prestige in the medical world. Everything else depends more on the students than the school. Because education is incredibly standardized across med schools, the only major differences b/w them are, well, research funding, prestige, and quality of entering students.</p>
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<p>Many people in academic medicine would consider the NIH ranking as the only ranking that counts, and the USNews as meaningless. The other factors that USNews brings in do not really have anything to do with the prestige of the medical school. The only problem with the NIH list is that some medical schools include awards to the hospitals- like Hopkins, and some do not -like Harvard. Thus it can be difficult to compare without doing the detective work to make sure all NIH funding to the medical research enterprise is accounted for.</p>