Stanford School of Medicine withdraws from U.S. News & World Report rankings - Stanford Medical Center Report

Dear community,

I americium penning to stock that the Stanford School of Medicine volition retreat from U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Medical Schools” survey and rankings. We made this determination aft extended deliberation astir the methodology with colleagues and members of our community. Ultimately, we judge that the methodology, arsenic it stands, does not seizure the afloat grade of what makes for an exceptional learning environment.  

As educators, we person a profound work to grant and enactment those weighing an acquisition astatine Stanford School of Medicine. To assistance prospective students amended measure their options, starting March 1, 2023, we volition statesman independently reporting information astir our aesculapian school’s performance. 

Our metrics volition bespeak and measure the efforts and accomplishments of our module successful education, research, and diligent attraction arsenic good arsenic the innovation and interaction of module and trainees connected biomedicine and their roles successful processing tomorrow’s leaders. Our reporting volition besides correspond our tripartite ngo and cardinal priorities that our students person identified arsenic important to their acquisition experience, including entree to extended diligent attraction and probe opportunities. Moreover, our process volition bespeak our halfway values, emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion, and volition guarantee that our metrics are measurable, verifiable, and transparent. We invited opportunities to sermon our metrics with cardinal stakeholders arsenic they are finalized.    

Although we are withdrawing our information successful the U.S. News rankings, it is important to enactment that the work whitethorn proceed ranking our instauration based connected publically disposable data. I besides privation to underscore that this does not alteration Stanford Health Care’s oregon Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s information successful the U.S. News “Best Hospitals” rankings. Medical schoolhouse and infirmary rankings are abstracted and autarkic and usage antithetic methodologies.  

Deciding wherever to be aesculapian schoolhouse is 1 of the astir important decisions a pupil tin make. For many, it sets the instauration for a lifelong vocation successful work of others. We judge that our decision, on with those of a increasing fig of adjacent institutions, is indispensable to pb a long-overdue introspection of however aesculapian acquisition prime is evaluated and presented to aspiring students. 

Sincerely,

Lloyd Minor, MD 

Dean, Stanford School of Medicine