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American Doctor IQ Score 173/200

American Doctor has an IQ Score of 173/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

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173/ 200
Masterclass

Exceptional cognitive and educational substance, delivered with craft that sustains close attention

American Doctor poster, IQ Score 173/200, Masterclass tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50
43
Educational Value/50
45
Craft & Quality/50
41
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)  · How we score →
What these dimensions mean
  • Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
  • Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
  • Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH
Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.
Formula
round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)
Database scale
2,605 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Poh Si Teng follows three American physicians, one Palestinian, one Jewish, one Zoroastrian, into Gaza's hospitals in March 2025. The film's weight sits in its argument with itself about what footage to show and who is entitled to narrate a catastrophe.

Triage is filmed as reasoning under scarcity rather than as spectacle, which is why the educational score runs near the top of the documentary range.

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American Doctor scored 173/200 (Masterclass tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/american-doctor/

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