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. (Full Message)