This article takes an interesting look at whether the “reputation” of your medical school affects your propensity to write opiate prescriptions.

This paper published July 7, 2017 by economics professors at Princeton University (seems like some Harvard bias), determined that physicians who studied at “lower-ranked” medical schools prescribe nearly three times as many opioids per year as those who attended “top-tier” institutions.

The finding was first published by the National Bureau of Economic Research

Here is the list of medical schools by “rank”

And here is how EM providers stack up

And here is how all physicians stack up

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Doctors who attend lower-tier medical schools prescribe far more opioids