title: Medical School Ranking and Student Research Opportunities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to characterize the current state of student research opportunities in a sample of US medical schools ranked in three different tiers.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors examined the websites for five US medical schools in each of the first, second, and third tiers per National Institutes of Health funding and U.S. News & World Report rankings. Available research opportunities were identified and categorized.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 26 schools in the first (n=6), second (n=10), and third (n=10) tiers. From the first, second, and third tiers, 4/6 (67%), 1/10 (10%) and none, respectively, required a research experience (p=0.003); 6/6 (100%), 4/10 (40%) and 1/10 (10%), respectively, offered internally funded one-year research (p=0.002); and 5/6 (83%), 4/10 (40%) and 2/10 (20%), respectively, offered student research days (p=0.045).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Higher ranked schools provided more opportunities for student research by providing internally funded one-year research, requiring research, and offering student research days. [Full article available at http://rimed.org/rimedicaljournal-2016-10.asp].
authors.affiliation: medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI.
authors.forename: Annika G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Havnaer
authors.affiliation: Professor of Surgery (Ophthalmology), Division of Ophthalmology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Chief of Ophthalmology, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI.
authors.forename: Paul B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Greenberg
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States
keywords: medical school research opportunity; medical student research; research experience; research program