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Medical School Ranking and Student Research Opportunities
Annika G Havnaer1, Paul B Greenberg2
1medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI.
Objective:
This study aimed to characterize the current state of student research opportunities in a sample of US medical schools ranked in three different tiers.
Methods:
The authors examined the websites for five US medical schools in each of the first, second, and third tiers per National Institutes of Health funding and U.S. News & World Report rankings. Available research opportunities were identified and categorized.
Results:
There were 26 schools in the first (n=6), second (n=10), and third (n=10) tiers. From the first, second, and third tiers, 4/6 (67%), 1/10 (10%) and none, respectively, required a research experience (p=0.003); 6/6 (100%), 4/10 (40%) and 1/10 (10%), respectively, offered internally funded one-year research (p=0.002); and 5/6 (83%), 4/10 (40%) and 2/10 (20%), respectively, offered student research days (p=0.045).
Conclusions:
Higher ranked schools provided more opportunities for student research by providing internally funded one-year research, requiring research, and offering student research days. [Full article available at http://rimed.org/rimedicaljournal-2016-10.asp].
