Taking a guess. Academic Standpoint for Cards:
Hopkins
UWash >= UTSW = Vandy = Michigan >= UChicago
Mt. Sinai
UCSD = UVa = UNC
I dunno who or what Cedars Sinai is.
How do you figure UW is >= Michigan for cards? For what it's worth (which may be nothing), USNews ranks Michigan
#12 for Cardiology and Heart Surgery whereas Univ. of Washington is
not ranked (but is listed as "high performing"). The reason for the unranked status of UW appears to be that USNews rated it as having the "Lowest" subset number of discharges (only 1,800 or so Medicare cards admissions in 2007, 2008, and 2009). The real question is, how does one evaluate the quality of a cards program?
And, a distinct, and perhaps more pertinent question to Ellie321's query as a medicine resident to-be, is which IM program will prepare you best for a cards fellowship? An institution that has a great residency program which matches well into cards fellowships doesn't always also have a great cards fellowship program in-house, and vice versa. A good example of this might be Cleveland Clinic, where their cards fellowship is extremely strong, but their IM residency program is not as strong (and they don't take very many of their own into fellowship.)
Looking at UW's cards match over the last few years, (I'm looking at the printed program guide, which they sent to all the applicants they interviewed, but there is also some published data
here), in 2010-2011 they only matched 3 into cards (to UW, UTSW, and Wake Forest), and in 2009-2010 matched 4 into cards (at Duke, Mt. Sinai, UC Davis, and UW) whereas the Michigan IM program seems to
produce far more cards fellows - those stats list 63 matching into cards over 6 years (2003-2009), so Michigan IM matches on average 10 into cards per year and UW only matches about 3 per year.
Am I thinking about this the right way?
