hospital ranking

[TobiasFunkeMDFACS]

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I'm in the process of choosing a medical school and I was wondering if the ranking of the hospitals where we do rotations plays a role in the quality of education I will be getting. For instance, one school has a really great hospital with rankings in several specialties, but it's med school ranking is pretty low. What do I make of this situation?

 

[LizzyM]

Whenever you look at any rankings or ratings you have to ask: what goes into the ranking and do these matter to me?

for US News, 4 of the specialty hopstial rankings are based on reputation alone. For the others it is reputation plus mortality, plus nursing services, patient services, safety, and other "hard measures".

Many of these reputation ratings are self-perpetuating as the "best" are the best in physicians minds as they appear on the list year after year. I find it interesting that some hospitals with better than average mortality rates and excellent nursing services are listed as having "modest" reputations among physicians.