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Derivation and Validation of a Methodology for Tracking Academic Stature of Medical Schools
Author(s) -
Gallagher E. John,
Henneman Philip L.,
Schropp Mary Ann,
Force For the Task
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03771.x
Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , medicine , concordance , quartile , pairwise comparison , medical education , categorization , family medicine , statistics , computer science , information retrieval , mathematics , artificial intelligence , confidence interval
Objective: To derive and validate a methodology for academic ranking of allopathic medical schools in order to track the development of emergency medicine (EM) at academic medical centers. Methods: A methodology for institutional ranking according to NIH research grant funding was derived by using a well‐known multiaxial ordinal ranking of all Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)‐accredited allopathic schools in 1990–91 as the criterion standard. This methodology was validated against the same annually updated criterion standard in 1995–96. Both ranking schemes were first stratified by quartile, then aggregated pairwise by contiguous quartiles to develop a 3 × 3 concordance matrix. Results: Ranking by NIH grant funding produced concordance between all 126 schools in the derivation set and 123/124 schools in the validation set. Conclusion: NIH research grant funding may be used as a valid methodology for broad categorization of allopathic medical school academic rank. This strategy should therefore serve as a suitable means of following the development of academic EM over time. This project was supported by a grant from SAEM.