<p>Those “Medical Sciences” numbers are for PhD programs, not MDs. And you can tell that there’s something hinky about them because of the particular list of most-productive undergraduate institutions: </p>
<p>Univ. of Sciences in Philadelphia
Albany College of Pharmacy
Hampshire
U.C., San Francisco
Ohio Northern
Stanford
Univ. of Texas Hlth Sci Center
Reed
Mount Holyoke<br>
Wellesley </p>
<p>Ummm, give me a break! University of the Sciences in Philadelphia is the rebranded Philadelphia College of Pharmaceutical Science. I didn’t even know that UCSF had undergraduates. Any race in which they, and Hampshire, and Albany College of Pharmacy, etc., are beating Stanford (not to mention the rest of the college glitterati) may not be a race I care all that much about.</p>
<p>EDIT: OK, a little research solved the UCSF puzzle, and gives a little more indication of why the Medical Science numbers aren’t what I would focus on. UCSF doesn’t generally award baccalauriat degrees, except that in nursing and pharmacy it will take students with associate degrees and eventually give them a BA as part of the qualifications for the masters degree programs in which they are enrolled. It’s a very small population relative to the university as a whole, and obviously there’s a significant opportunity for generating PhD degrees in those fields because they don’t award BAs to anyone who isn’t already enrolled in an MS program, and of course its MS programs are cheek-by-jowl with some of the biggest PhD programs in those particular fields. Now I want to know how USP, ACP, and Hampshire (!) could possibly produce bigger numbers.</p>