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Table 5 2014 AMSA scorecard grade, stratified by medical school characteristics, 2014

From: The updated AMSA scorecard of conflict-of-interest policies: a survey of U.S. medical schools

Medical School Characteristics

Overall AMSA Scorecard Grade

P value

A

B

C

I

School Type (n = 160)

    

< 0.0001

Allopathic (136 schools)

24 (17.6 %)

79 (58.1 %)

23 (16.9 %)

10 (7.4 %)

 

Osteopathic (24 schools)*

3 (12.5 %)

3 (12.5 %)

2 (8.3 %)

16 (66.7 %)

 

School Location (n = 160)

    

0.20 (does not include the Puerto Rico schools)

Northeast (39 schools)

7 (17.9 %)

22 (56.4 %)

4 (10.4 %)

6 (15.4 %)

 

South (58 schools)

11 (19 %)

28 (48.3 %)

10 (17.2 %)

9 (15.5 %)

 

Midwest (36 schools)

4 (5.6 %)

18 (50 %)

11 (30.6 %)

3 (8.3 %)

 

West (23 schools)

5 (21.7 %)

14 (60.9 %)

0 (0 %)

4 (17.4 %)

 

Other (Puerto Rico, 4 schools)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

4 (100 %)

 
  1. Notes: *Osteopathic medical schools that have not yet graduated a medical school class were not included in the 2014 Scorecard
  2. United States Census Bureau, “Census Regions and Divisions of the United States,” accessed May 26, 2016, https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_census_divreg.html