World medicine rankings out

QS, whose rankings were previously associated with Times Higher Education until the latter partnered with Thomson Reuters two years ago, has released its world university rankings on Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology (this might not be obvious but Life Sciences was broken down into these three, each with their own rankings). By the end of this May, QS will have released rankings for 33 subjects. No doubt, unis like Harvard, Cambridge and MIT topped this list. But considering there are only 21 medical schools in Australia and New Zealand (compard to 159 in the US and 32 in the UK), we have faired alright.

Here's a compilation of the ranked unis in Australia and New Zealand for Medicine.

AUS/NZ rank	World rank
1	15	The University of Melbourne
2	29	The University of Sydney
3	33	The University of Queensland
4	36	Monash University
5	39	The University of Auckland
6	46	Australian National University
7	51-100	The University of Adelaide
8	51-100	The University of New South Wales
9	51-100	University of Otago
10	51-100	The University of Western Australia
11	101-150	University of Newcastle
12	151-200	Flinders University
13	151-200	Macquarie University

And yes I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that league tables should be treated with caution. The methodology behind this particularly ranking is, in a nutshell, 50% academic reputation; 10% employer reputation and 40% citations per paper.

This is another ranking by THE/Thomson Reuters of the top 50 unis in clinical, pre-clinical and health-related subjects.

On a very different note, Bundaberg Hospital is back in the news (okay local paper for now) again with a woman who had a miscarriage saying that "the doctor who treated me in the emergency department refused to touch me while I lay haemorrhaging for an hour, as he was disgusted by the amount of blood I was covered in."