As part of its annual best medical schools lists, U.S. News & World Report conducted specialty rankings in anesthesiology, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiology, and surgery.
The publication released its top 15 medical schools for research on April 11, a preview of the full medical schools rankings released May 11. Rankings are based on a survey of more than 190 medical and osteopathic schools. This data and third-party statistics were then used to determine overall rankings, eight medical field specialty rankings, and four diversity and practice rankings, U.S. News said.
The specialty rankings are based solely on ratings by medical school deans and senior faculty from surveyed schools. Survey respondents each identified up to 15 schools offering the best programs in each of the eight specialties. Schools or programs receiving at least seven nominations in a specialty area were ranked in descending order based on the number of votes in each specialty. Read more about the methodology here.
Note: The lists include ties.
Top six medical schools for anesthesiology:
1. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore)
2. Harvard Medical School (Boston)
3. Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, N.C.)
4. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
5. University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor)
5. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Top five medical schools for family medicine:
1. Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine (Portland)
2. University of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle)
3. UC San Francisco School of Medicine
3. University of North Carolina School of Medicine (Chapel Hill)
5. UC Davis School of Medicine (Sacramento, Calif.)
Top five medical schools for internal medicine:
1. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore)
2. Harvard Medical School (Boston)
3. UC San Francisco School of Medicine
4. Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, N.C.)
5. University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor)
Top five medical schools for obstetrics and gynecology:
1. Harvard Medical School (Boston)
2. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore)
3. University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor)
4. Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, N.C.)
4. UC San Francisco School of Medicine
Top five medical schools for pediatrics:
1. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
2. Harvard Medical School (Boston)
3. University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
4. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore)
5. UC San Francisco School of Medicine
Top five medical schools for psychiatry:
1. Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York City)
2. Harvard Medical School (Boston)
3. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore)
4. UC San Francisco School of Medicine
4. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Top five medical schools for radiology:
1. Harvard Medical School (Boston)
2. New York University Grossman School of Medicine (New York City)
3. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore)
3. UC San Francisco School of Medicine
5. Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, N.C.)
Top five medical schools for surgery:
1. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore)
2. UC San Francisco School of Medicine
3. Harvard Medical School (Boston)
4. Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, N.C.)
5. University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor)