Dear Colleagues,
For the ninth consecutive year, the U.S.News & World Report annual graduate and professional school rankings, released this morning, have ranked the UW School of Medicine No. 1 in primary care. In the U.S. News analysis of National Institutes of Health (NIH) federal funding, the UW School of Medicine ranked first in the nation among public medical schools, and third overall after Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania, both private medical schools. U.S. News records the UW School of Medicine as receiving $367.7 million in NIH funding in fiscal year 2001.
U.S. News also surveyed medical school deans and senior faculty to measure institutions' reputations in teaching specific medical disciplines. This year, the UW School of Medicine's training efforts in rural medicine ranked No. 1 for the eleventh year in a row. In addition, family medicine ranked No. 1 for the ninth consecutive year. The survey results ranked the school No. 5 in AIDS training, No. 7 in geriatrics, internal medicine, and pediatrics, and No. 9 in women's health.
The UW School of Medicine's graduate program in microbiology tied at No. 9 with University of California-San Francisco. The bioengineering graduate program, jointly managed by the College of Engineering and the School of Medicine, ranked No. 5. The new interdisciplinary graduate program in neuroscience tied for No. 10 with Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania.
The rankings are a reflection of the excellence of the faculty, students, and staff of the UW Academic Medical Center. Thank you for your dedicated, excellent service.
Paul Ramsey, M.D.
Vice President for Medical Affairs
And Dean of the School of Medicine
April 5, 2002
