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A TEN-dency Toward Excellenceby Kimberlee Barbour and Ron Gilmore No matter how you say it, the word TEN still means you are one of a few. It's the number of toes a small child can count. And it's a common figure to use in short lists to identify top winners in events. Just watch American Idol. In the case of Baylor College of Medicine, it is a number that places it among the very elite of U.S. medical schools. In April, BCM placed No. 10 on the U.S. News & World Report ranking of top U.S. medical schools. The school shares this prestigious list with such luminous institutions as Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, University of California-San Francisco, Washington University in St. Louis, Duke University and Stanford (tied), University of Washington, and Yale. In the annual survey, BCM was also listed as 11th for primary care, moving up from its 22nd ranking last year. Primary care includes internal medicine, family practice, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics. The College's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences also placed well this year, ranking No. 22 for biological sciences, up two spaces from 2002, the last year the survey was conducted for this field. The Graduate School is in the top 10 percent of its category, based on approximately 400 schools with graduate programs on the National Science Foundation's "Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards" for 1999 through 2004. In addition to Baylor College of Medicine, only three other schools achieved top 10 percent ranking in both research and primary care medical school categories, as well as a top 10 percent ranking in biological sciences—Duke University, UCSF, and the University of Washington. "This amazing leap in BCM's rankings demonstrates not only an institution-wide awareness of the need for growth and excellence, but also by its affiliated hospital partners," said Dr. Peter G. Traber, BCM president and CEO. "All of the BCM family, including its alumni, donors, community and legislative supporters can take great pride in this achievement." The medical school rankings survey included 125 medical schools fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, plus the 19 schools of osteopathic medicine fully accredited by the American Osteopathic Association. The rankings are based on a weighted average of eight "indicators" that includes average undergraduate GPAs, average MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) scores, acceptance rate, NIH research grants, faculty-student ratio, out-of-state tuition and fees, and total medical school enrollment. In addition, peer-assessment surveys of medical and osteopathic school deans, deans of academic affairs, and heads of internal medicine or directors of admissions rate program quality on a scale of one to five. Doctoral program rankings are based on the results of surveys sent to deans and department chairs in each discipline. |
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