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One scale for the whole world
A hospital in Istanbul and one in Boston are measured with the same ruler, ranked against true global peers instead of a local curve.
The pillars
What the score is made of
Hospitals and doctors are scored on their own pillars: same engine, right questions for each.
Hospitals
Accreditation & quality20%
JCI, GHA, ISO 15189 and other accreditations open to every country. Verified in the accreditors' own directories.
Medical staff authority15%
The independent authority of the doctors you can actually reach, led by the hospital's top specialists.
Research & academic output15%
Publications, citations and registered clinical trials, measured against both global and national peers.
Scale & infrastructure10%
Beds, theatres, specialties and advanced technology, with diminishing returns so size alone never wins.
Patient experience20%
Public review scores, volume-weighted so a handful of perfect reviews cannot beat thousands of real ones.
International patient services20%
Languages, coordinators, transfers and travel support: the part of care an international patient feels first.
Doctors
Academic impact25%
Citations and publications, ranked inside the doctor's own specialty. A surgeon is never measured against a geneticist.
Academic title & board15%
Professorship levels mapped across countries, plus verified board certification.
Specialization depth15%
Fellowships, sub-specialties and a visible focus. Depth beats a stack of general certificates.
Institutional authority15%
The independent strength of the hospitals where the doctor trained and practises.
Leadership & recognition10%
Guideline authorship, journal editorships and society presidencies show leadership in the field itself.
Experience10%
Years in practice after specialisation, with diminishing returns.
Patient trust10%
Counted only with 30+ reviews on 2+ platforms, and hardened further in review-prone specialties.
Doctor and hospital scores feed each other in one careful pass: a hospital is lifted by its doctors' independent authority, a doctor by the independent strength of their institutions. Never in a circle.
How it works
From raw fact to final score
Four steps, applied identically to every provider on the platform.
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Collect
Signals are fetched only from the registered sources below. Never typed in by hand, never self-reported without proof.
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Compare fairly
Raw numbers become percentiles inside the right cohort: cardiologists against cardiologists, hospitals against global and national peers.
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Weigh
Each pillar is scored 0–5 and blended with fixed, published weights. Missing data is marked, re-weighted and capped, never silently ignored.
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Publish with proof
The score ships with its breakdown, its confidence, its sources and its edition date, on every single profile.
The recipe
Three things, weighed in the open
Every hospital score is the same three-part blend: nothing hidden, nothing bespoke.
The patient's side
Real patient experience and international patient services, because reputation on paper is not care in person.
Structural quality
International accreditations and real capacity: audited facts, straight from the accreditors.
Academic authority
The staff's independent standing and the institution's research output, ranked against true peers.
The scale
Where the bar sits
4.80 and above is reserved for the global exceptions: a handful of institutions and careers worldwide. The top of this scale cannot be reached by marketing.
Exceptional
4.80 – 5.00
Excellent
4.50 – 4.79
Very good
4.00 – 4.49
Good
3.50 – 3.99
Fair
2.50 – 3.49
Limited signals
below 2.50 · not ranked
Exceptional
Excellent
Very good
Good
Fair
These badges appear on profiles and lists across FindMed. Same thresholds everywhere, two decimals, no rounding tricks.
The guard rails
What keeps FMR honest
A rating is only worth what it refuses to do. These rules are versioned, published and the same for everyone.
FMR cannot be bought
Sponsorship can change where a profile is placed, and placement is always labelled. The score itself never moves. No exceptions, no price.
Fame is not a signal
Followers, press volume and ad spend enter no formula. A surgeon with two million followers and no verifiable record gets no score at all.
Thin data cannot rank
Below 40% data coverage no score is published. Below 70%, the score is capped at 4.49 and the profile cannot enter Top lists.
Identity is proven first
Academic records count only when the person is matched beyond 80% confidence. A John Smith is never credited with another John Smith's papers.
Review bombs bounce off
A sudden spike in ratings freezes the patient-experience pillar at its previous edition until a human review clears it.
No country gets a head start
Only sources that exist for every country can produce score. A national ratings system one country publishes helps no one's number here.
The evidence
Where the data comes from
Every signal is pulled from a registered source and carries its receipt: the link, the fetch date and an independent confirmation.
The registry is the whole story: if a source is not on it, it cannot touch a score. Open academic databases, international accreditors' own directories, global clinical-trial registries and public review platforms. Each carries a published grade, and every stored value keeps its source link and fetch date, so any score can be audited back to its raw facts.
A
Official & academic
Accreditors' own directories, open academic databases, licence registries. Enters the score directly.
B
Independently confirmed
A claim counts only when a second, independent source agrees. One voice is never enough.
C
Single & unverified
Never produces score. At most a lead, waiting for confirmation.
Country-specific ratings systems, such as a national hospital star programme or a national patient survey, are shown on profiles as information. They never enter the score, so no country's hospitals get a built-in advantage.
The rhythm
Scored in editions, not on whims
FMR is recalculated four times a year. Inside an edition, no score and no ranking moves for anyone.
Final-week freshness
Patient-rating inputs are fetched in the last seven days before an edition closes, shown with attribution and never stored beyond their source's terms.
History on every profile
Each profile keeps its past editions. Progress is visible, never rewritten. A score has a memory.
A methodology with a changelog
Every change to the formula itself is versioned and logged in public. Silent tweaks do not exist here.
See it on real profiles
Every hospital and doctor page shows its full FMR breakdown, pillar by pillar and source by source.
FMR methodology · Updated October 2026 · FMR cannot be purchased: sponsorship changes placement, never the score.