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COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group
Medical schools are seeing the reversal of a 6-year decline in applications as the economy sags and students gravitate toward careers of service.
At press time, the Association of American Medical Colleges expected this year's final number of applicants to be about 35,500, said Robert F. Jones, Ph.D., AAMC's vice president for medical school services and studies.
Based on the number of students who have already taken the Medical College Admission Test this year, and the number of applications already submitted to the AAMC's centralized application service, Dr. Jones said the 2004-2005 class year will continue the new upward trend,
"Generally, medical school applications run in cycles," Dr. Jones said. The most recent peak came in 1996-1997 when...
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