Most elite medical schools rank low on 'social mission'

Kaiser Health News staff writer Jenny Gold reports: "A new study is turning the traditional medical school ranking list on its head. When it comes to 'social mission' - graduating doctors who are minorities, practice primary care and/or work in underserved areas, private schools (especially those in the Northeast) are at the bottom of the barrel, according to the survey published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine" (Kaiser Health News). This story also appears on NPR's health blog, Shots. 

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