The University of Vermont College of Medicine ranked ninth for quality in primary care training among the country’s top 125 medical schools according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest graduate school rankings. The rankings appear in the April 11 issue of U.S. News and World Report magazine and in the book America's Best Graduate Schools, on newsstands this week.

“We’re proud to have moved up to the top-ten for primary care education – an area that’s critical in the state of Vermont and across the country,” said UVM College of Medicine Dean John Evans, Ph.D. “Our most important mission is to educate caring and compassionate physicians, so this recognition of our school is especially gratifying.”

Each year, U.S. News ranks professional-school programs in business, education, engineering, law, and medicine, based on surveys of nearly 1,300 programs and almost 9,600 academics and professionals conducted in fall 2004. The medical school rankings are based on assessments by medical school deans and senior faculty, admission acceptance rates, test scores, faculty/student ratios and other factors. The primary care rankings include assessment of the percentage of medical school graduates who enter primary care residencies in family practice, pediatrics and internal medicine.

Link to the US News & World Report online rankings here: US News Medical School Rankings