Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine ranked among the nation’s best for 2024 by U.S. News

Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine has been recognized in the 2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings by U.S. News and World Report.

The Boonshoft School of Medicine was ranked in the second tier — out of four — for primary care nationally and in the third tier for research by U.S. News.

The Boonshoft School of Medicine was also ranked highly in other areas:

• Most Diverse Medical Schools: 28th nationally and third among the seven medical schools in Ohio
• Most Graduates Serving Rural Areas: 37th nationally and second in Ohio
• Most Graduates in Primary Care: 52nd nationally and second in Ohio
• Graduates Practicing in Medically Underserved Areas: 100th nationally and second in Ohio

The Best Graduate Schools rankings use statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research and students and their post-graduate outcomes.

There were 99 medical and osteopathic schools with eligible data for the primary care ratings and 102 for the research ratings. Nearly 170 medical schools were ranked in the other four categories.

“The hallmark of a Boonshoft School of Medicine grad is the quality of their clinical skills,” said Gregory Toussaint, M.D., interim dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine. “Our grads shine because our curriculum produces exceptional physicians who can excel in whatever specialty and residency they match into. A significant aspect of our program is the broad range of clinical experiences available to our students who rotate at our public and private partners in and outside of Dayton, including Premier Health, Wright-Patterson Medical Center and the Dayton VA Medical Center.”

The Boonshoft School of Medicine offers undergraduate medical education leading to the M.D. degree and is the sponsoring institution for residency training programs in the primary care fields of family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics. In each of the last five years, more than a third of graduating medical students have matched into a primary care field for residency training.

“The Boonshoft School of Medicine has a historic emphasis on educating culturally diverse students, service learning and patient-centered primary care,” said Harminder Grewal, M.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine. “The School of Medicine is a national leader in community-based medical education. Our highly dedicated core and voluntary faculty and staff provide students with exceptional experiences in multiple primary care settings including urban, rural, and academic practice environments. The school also attracts students who have a passion for supporting the underserved and global health.”

The Family Medicine department’s two residency training programs focus modeling patient-centered principles of family medicine, serving the community’s health needs and contributing to the scholarly advancement of medicine.

Faculty members are active in medical education, including clinical medicine skills training, the third-year family medicine clerkship and 11 electives for third- and fourth-year medical students. The department has strengths in global medicine, addiction medicine and sports medicine.

The Family Medicine Residency Program is a 30-trainee program based at the Five Rivers Family Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Dayton. The program attracts talented newly minted physicians from Boonshoft and around the United States, and many graduating residents practice locally.

The Boonshoft School of Medicine has several initiatives focused at increasing the number of physicians in rural Ohio.

Through the Wright Rural Medical Scholars Program, medical students interested in rural medicine can complete clinical rotations in Boonshoft School of Medicine’s partner health care systems supporting rural communities in west central Ohio.

Wright State’s Rural Family Residency Program, now in its second year and based with Wayne Health Care in Greenville, allows physicians to experience living and practicing medicine in rural western Ohio while also helping address the shortage of physicians in rural America.

Wright State’s Department of Pediatrics provides medical students with an education focused on all aspects of the primary care needs of infants, children and adolescents and prepares residents in family practice, emergency medicine and other disciplines that meet the primary care needs of children.

Wright State’s Internal Medicine program operates as a “clinical department without walls,” based at Premier Health’s Miami Valley Hospital and affiliated with the Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Wright-Patterson Medical Center.

All three primary care training programs are integrated with the Wright-Patterson Medical Center, and have a mix of both civilian and active-duty Air Force residents. The unique nature of this type of program provides residents opportunities to care for patients from different socioeconomic, cultural and geographic settings.