Replication of a Multidimensional Model of Medical School Similarities. Final Report

In 1976, the Association of American Medical Colleges developed a map-like model to describe the global picture of the U.S. medical school similarities with respect to two loosely defined concepts: an institutional emphasis on research and an emphasis on clinical and graduate medical training. This study is an attempt to replicate the results of the 1976 study using more recent data. Public and private medical school similarities were modeled using mulitdimensional scaling. Twelve variables were used to define and compute similarities between pairs of schools. Two- and three-dimensional models were derived. Multiple regression methods were used to determine how well school differences on each of the twelve variables of the scaling and regression replications were compared with those of the l976 study. (SPG)