Medical students across the country have until Feb. 26 to select their medical residency preferences, and a recent, first-of-its-kind survey could help, as it identified the top internal medicine residency programs — as ranked by physicians.
Doximity and U.S. News & World Report surveyed more than 3,400 physicians who have completed an internal medicine residency program and are Doximity members. Doximity is an online network connecting physicians to one another. Each physician nominated up to five programs based on the clinical training the program provided. More than 9,000 nominations were received.
Just three programs received at least 600 nominations, making them the most-lauded internal medicine residency programs in the nation:
• Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) — 732 nominations
• Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) — 696 nominations
• Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) — 600 nominations
The University of California San Francisco Medical Center received 579 nominations and rounds out the top four programs.
Twenty more programs stood out from the pack, receiving between 100 and 300 nominations. They are listed below, along with the number of nominations received.
1. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) — 297
2. Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.) — 283
3. Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis) — 249
4. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) — 248
5. NewYork Presbyterian Hospital Columbia campus — 215
6. McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University (Chicago) — 201
7. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) — 183
8. University of Washington (Seattle) — 183
9. University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (Dallas) — 177
10. Cleveland Clinic Foundation — 165
11. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York City) — 161
12. Stanford (Calif.) University — 155
13. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.) — 150
14. NewYork Presbyterian Hospital Cornell campus — 149
15. University of Chicago — 144
16. Emory University (Atlanta) — 134
17. UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) — 131
18. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston) — 130
19. Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Medical Center — 120
20. New York University School of Medicine — 115
"While these results are not a U.S. News ranking, the data we've published can help medical students make more informed decisions when they rank residencies on their individual match lists," Ben Harder, managing editor and director of healthcare analysis and author of the U.S. News report on the survey, said in a news release.
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