Typological analysis of U.S. medical schools.
Using multivariate statistical techniques, a large number of variables describing medical school characteristics was reduced to five general dimensions of variation. Patterns of factor scores on these five dimensions served as the basis of a typology of 107 U.S. medical schools. The types of schools so identified were found to be related to the proportions of graduates entering different areas of medicine.
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