From WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com …
— The UW School of Medicine and Public Health has been ranked in the top tier of medical schools for the first time by U.S. News & World Report, joined by just 15 other schools in the country.
UW-Madison today is touting the Tier 1 ranking for primary care, which is based in part on the share of the school’s 2017 to 2019 graduates who were practicing in certain primary care specialties last year. Those included family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, geriatrics, general practice or internal medicine-pediatrics.
The rankings also took into account program selectivity and the ratio of faculty to students, which is 2.3:1. The program acceptance rate is 4%.
Dr. Nita Ahuja, dean of the UW SMPH and vice chancellor for medical affairs at the university, says being included among the very best medical schools for primary care shows “our commitment to addressing critical physician workforce shortages.”
She notes about half of Wisconsin’s counties include federally designated primary care shortage areas.
“We must close that gap to meet our vision of healthy people and healthy communities,” she said in a statement on the ranking.
Meanwhile, the program also remained in Tier 2 for its research ranking, reserved for medical schools in the top 50th to 84th percentile for research performance.
“The ability to seek insights from complex, large-scale biomedical data — skills taught in our highly-ranked biostatistics program — is essential for discovering solutions to the world’s greatest health challenges,” Ahuja said in the university’s release.
See the full rankings and see the release below.
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– UW-Madison: School of Medicine and Public Health MD program ranked Tier 1 for primary care
