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Harvard Medical School rejects U.S. News rankings

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1 medical school for research says rankings “create perverse incentives” for institutions to submit false or misleading data. The dean of the No.

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Stanford, Columbia, Penn, Mount Sinai medical schools withdraw from U.S. News rankings

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The exodus follows Harvard medical school and a contingent of law schools rejecting the listings.

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Only 5% of UK medical school entrants are working class, data shows

The Guardian - Higher Education

Sutton Trust says underrepresentation of poorer students is outrageous but number has doubled in 10 years to 2022 Students from working class backgrounds still only make up 5% of entrants to medical schools across the UK, a proportion that has doubled over the past decade, analysis has found.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies donates $600M to 4 historically Black medical schools

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The charitable group is also giving $5 million to the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, which is slated to open in New Orleans.

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Roughly a third of medical schools have DEI incentives for employees, report finds

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Two-thirds of surveyed schools have a plan to diversify faculty recruitment, but less than half of promotion and tenure policies reward faculty DEI work.

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U.S. News scales back reputation, selectivity metrics in law, medical school rankings

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The methodology changes follow an exodus of institutions from those rankings that began last year.

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Will Free Medical School Diversify the Physician Workforce?

Inside Higher Ed

Will Free Medical School Diversify the Physician Workforce? kathryn.palmer… Tue, 04/23/2024 - 03:00 AM A slew of medical colleges have gone tuition-free in recent years. But experts say it’s not enough to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the medical field. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer