Dartmouth Medical School was ranked 34th out of 126 medical schools and 20 schools of osteopathic medicine in the annual rankings conducted by U.S. News and World Report, The Boston Globe reported. DMS, which placed 35th last year, is tied with Boston University and the University of Southern California. Harvard Medical School has once again been named the number one research medical school.
Transplant surgeon and medical educator Richard Freeman has been appointed by the Board of Trustees to the William N. and Bessie Allyn Professorship of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School, according to a DMS press release. Freeman joined the DMS faculty in January when he became chair of the surgery department. Freeman received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1983, did his postdoctoral work with the Harvard Surgical Service and had been a member of the faculty at Tufts University School of Medicine since 1990. He has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the New England Organ Bank and has served as associate editor of the American Journal of Transplantation. The Allyn Professorship was started in 1984 and was first occupied by Robert Critchlow, and then by Michael Mayor.
American college students preparing to be math teachers scored on average a C on a test which gauged their math and math teaching skills, a new study as found, according to The New York Times. The test compared American education students to counterparts in 15 other countries. While the results were deemed acceptable for future elementary school teachers, the researchers who led the study found the performance of prospective middle school teachers to be "disturbing," according to The Times. Education students in Germany, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan, Russia and Switzerland outperformed future middle school teachers in the United States on the test, which was a different test than that taken by students studying to be elementary school teachers. The study found that between 80 and 100 percent of future middle school teachers in the high-performing countries had taken advanced courses such as calculus and linear algebra and that only 50 to 60 percent of those in the United States had taken the same courses. Critics of the study raised concerns that too many European countries were left out of the study for it to be representative and that expectations for middle school teachers' math expertise were too high, The Times reported.
