Short-Term Stability and Spread of the U.S. News & World Report Primary Care Medical School Rankings

The annual U.S. News & World Report (USN&WR) Primary Care Medical School (PCMS) ranking attracts considerable attention, but its measurement properties have not been published. The authors examined the short-term stability of the PCMS ranking and the PCMS score from which it derives, along with the short-term spread of schools' rankings.The authors employed published data and methods to reconstruct the 2009-2012 PCMS scores and rankings. They...