Top medical schools for physicians working in primary care – a slideshow

American doctors receive their training at some of the finest medical schools in the world.

Some of those colleges have become national leaders for alumni who practice in primary care.

U.S. News & World Report has become known for rating academic institutions for medicine and other areas of study by any number of criteria. While landing at a top spot on the list may be a mark of prestige, the rankings rankle some who believe they may be subject to various biases, or don’t account for all factors that contribute to the quality of an institution of higher learning.

Even so, U.S. News enlisted the aid of the Robert Graham Center, the primary care policy research arm of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) to calculate which medical schools have the most graduates practicing in primary care. There were 168 schools ranked, based on physicians graduated from 2015 to 2017, and then arriving at locations and specialties six to eight years later. Additional data came from the American Medical Association.

Just what is primary care? This list defined primary care physicians as those who, as of 2023, specialized in family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, general practice, internal medicine pediatrics or geriatrics. More information about data and criteria is here.

Here are the top 15 medical schools with the most graduates in primary care, and the percentages of those colleges’ graduates in primary care. All figures come from U.S. News & World Report.