Med School Enrollment Hits New High
WASHINGTON -- The number of people applying to medical school increased by 6.2% for 2015, which followed a 3.1% jump the previous year, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) announced Thursday.
A total of 52,550 people applied to medical school in 2014 for enrollment in 2015; of those, 38,460 were first-time applicants, an increase of 4.8% from the previous year, the AAMC said.
"Why would medicine continue to draw so strongly? Two forces are at work," Darrell Kirch, MD, the AAMC's president and CEO, said Thursday on a conference call with reporters. "One goes back to the notion of service; there aren't many forms of service more clear, direct, and gratifying than caring for patients.""The other reason is that medical schools have not remained in an ivory tower; they're changing what they offer to students," he continued. "These last two decades have seen more change in the way...
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