The Duke School of Medicine volition nary longer enactment successful the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Medical Schools ranking.
Mary E. Klotman, dean of the School of Medicine, and Edward Buckley, vice dean for acquisition of the School of Medicine, announced the determination to faculty, unit and students successful a Friday release. Their connection cited concerns with the “value and validity of the rankings.”
“The rankings convey thing astir the technological creativity, the intelligence rigor, the civilization of collaboration, the tone of service, and the committedness to equity, diversity, and inclusion that qualify the School of Medicine community,” wrote Klotman and Buckley. “The rankings measure probe by the magnitude of national backing an instauration receives; we, however, measure probe not lone by its national enactment but by its innovation, its impact, and its effectiveness successful grooming the adjacent procreation of physician-scientists.”
Duke was ranked sixth successful the 2023 US News rankings for champion aesculapian schools for research, released past spring, 3rd successful the 2022 rankings and 12th successful the 2021 rankings.
Several different apical schools person withdrawn from the U.S. News’ rankings wrong the past weeks. Harvard Law School was the first to denote its determination to retreat connected Jan. 17, followed by the aesculapian schools astatine Stanford, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia.
This determination besides comes aft Duke School of Law withdrew from the rankings successful November, with Dean Kerry Abrams citing similar concerns astir the ranking’s methodologies and purpose.
The School of Medicine’s determination lone applies to the U.S. News medicine schoolhouse rankings, per the release. It does not impact rankings for Duke University Hospital, the School of Nursing, oregon circumstantial grade programs, specified arsenic the Physician Assistant program, that U.S. News ranks separately and nether antithetic criteria.
U.S. News and World Report volition proceed to nutrient rankings each twelvemonth of each accredited aesculapian school, careless of whether they taxable data. If a schoolhouse chooses not to taxable data, its ranking volition beryllium based connected publically disposable data.
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