In addition to receiving the top primary care ranking by U.S. News & World Report, the UW School of Medicine was tied for sixth in biomedical research. Only Harvard Medical School was ranked as high as the UW in both primary care and research.

In NIH funding, the UW School of Medicine was again second only to Harvard among all U.S. medical schools in grant funding from the NIH. UW Medicine faculty received $579.7 million in NIH funding in 2007—$93 million more than the third-ranked school in this category, the University of Pennsylvania.

The UW School of Medicine again had the distinction of being the only medical school in the nation ranked in the top 10 in all specialties in the annual survey. In addition to top rankings in family medicine and rural health, the school was fourth for teaching students about AIDS; sixth in internal medicine; seventh in three specialties: geriatrics, pediatrics and women's health; and eighth in drug/alcohol abuse.

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