Profession
Medical school enrollment likely to rise
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted March 5, 2007
First-year enrollment in U.S. medical schools is projected to increase 17% by 2012 to nearly 19,300 students, according to the Assn. of American Medical Colleges' annual survey of medical school expansion. Last year the AAMC recommended that medical school enrollment increase 30% by 2015.
The survey said existing schools that are expanding will do so through a variety of ways, including new clinical affiliations, expansion of existing campuses and new regional/branch campuses. The report estimates that five new medical schools would enroll 250 more students by 2012.
The AAMC Center for Workforce Studies conducted the survey as part of the association's ongoing effort to monitor and analyze physician supply and demand, identify strategies to retain doctors in the work force and make more effective use of practicing physicians. Those goals and others will be discussed at the AAMC Physician Workforce Research Conference May 2-4 in Washington, D.C.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/03/05/prbf0305.htm.
