The following is an excerpt from Becker’s Healthcare Review.
Three more institutions have withdrawn from U.S. News’ medical school rankings in the past three days, bringing the grand total up to eight.
Boston-based Harvard Medical School, Stanford (Calif.) School of Medicine, New York City-based Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai backed out of the rankings between Jan. 17 and Jan. 24.
Now, three more universities have joined their ranks, and one is calling for a broader conversation.
The University of Chicago’s Prtizker School of Medicine became the eighth school to pull out of the rankings on the evening of Jan. 26, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Officials from the university also sent a letter to U.S. News on Jan. 26, requesting that school-ranking editors host a meeting with representatives to develop a more comprehensive, equitable ranking system.
“We have notified U.S. News editors that we do not plan to submit data for their medical school rankings next year,” Mark Anderson, MD, PhD, executive vice president for medical affairs and dean of the medical school and biological sciences division at UChicago, said in a Jan. 27 news release shared with Becker’s.
“In addition, we have asked them to convene stakeholders — including medical school applicants, current medical students, and other medical schools — to discuss how best to measure and report what matters most to those applying to become tomorrow’s physicians.
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