Which medical schools produce the most academic physicians?

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Are there stats anywhere out there on which medical schools tend to send students into academia? Not asking about students going into residencies at academic programs, but about students eventually joining the faculty at a medical school.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Are there stats anywhere out there on which medical schools tend to send students into academia? Not asking about students going into residencies at academic programs, but about students eventually joining the faculty at a medical school.

AAMC ID tracking would make that answer pretty simple. It might not surprise you the academic powerhouses beget their own. However, the number of medical schools has also grown, so there are also more opportunities for faculty to join the ranks at a given medical school to fulfill their specific dreams. I would not throw shade at anyone who graduates with a medical degree (MD or DO)... everyone hopefully rises to the dream positions they wish to pursue. Sometimes an opportunity is much better for someone based on their geographic proximity or knowledge of patients in an area. Then there are adjunct appointments as clinical faculty...

However, many students from brand-name academic schools also fall off the faculty academia track so they can be power administrators like CMOs and CSOs at pharma companies. Others get sick and tired of the rat race and get involved with non-profits and NGOs (World Health Organization (WHO)). Some even start for-profit medical schools... the rest are doing side-gigs and becoming med-fluencers. (kidding)

I say this because we do a poor job with such tracking in general. We have no tracking of students who attend some pipeline program, an undergraduate institution, or a graduate program. LinkedIn does a nice job if you can get it to do the work you want it to do, and enough people buy in to put up a LI profile. I say this because it's a common fact that even the most productive PhD labs do not necessarily become factories for new faculty PhD's.

 

[LizzyM]

I've been around academic medical centers for 40 years and I have seen two things: physicians coming out of the Ivies and similar high powered schools (Stanford, Hopkins) and those coming out of inexpensive state med schools and going into residencies at T20s. The combination of low debt and top training positions one well to take an academic job rather than needing to chase the big bucks in private practice (or these days, working for "the man" in a non-academic clinical setting).