AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Women driving increase in medical school applications: 51% of applicants.(News)

OB GYN News

| December 15, 2003 | Silverman, Jennifer | COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WASHINGTON -- For the first time, women outnumbered men in the ranks of medical school applicants, Dr. Jordan Cohen said at a press briefing sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

For the 2003-2004 school year, 17,672 women applied to medical schools, representing 51% of the total applicants--and and 7% rise in women applicants from last year's total.

"This isn't a one-time event," said Dr. Cohen, president of AAMC. The ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
More women apply to medical school, but minority enrollees continue to...
Magazine article from: Black Issues in Higher Education December 4, 2003 700+ words
...the number of women applicants--17,672...enrolling in medical school has declined...the majority of medical school applicants. Black women applicants increased by...Blacks who entered medical school declined by 6...
Applicants to medical school decrease.
News wire article from: United Press International September 1, 1999 700+ words
...increasing the number of women applicants and enrollees. ``It...When I graduated from medical school in 1960, there were 150...Statistics show 42.6 percent of medical school graduates in 1998-1999...AAMC and includes other medical school issues beyond application...
MED SCHOOL APPLICANTS DROP AGAIN: TREND APPEARS LIKELY TO CONTINUE, AS WOMEN...
Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare Moore, J. Duncan, Jr. September 13, 1999 700+ words
...and about 16,200 applicants entered medical school each year. This trend of declining...isn't the first recorded drop in medical school applications. They declined almost...years, the enrollment of women into medical school has continued to increase in absolute...
Black male med school applicants on upswing. (23.1% increase in...
Magazine article from: Jet July 5, 1993 700+ words
...to U.S. med schools--the first time in 12 years that the percentage increase exceeded that for Black women. Black women applicants increased 18.1 percent to 2,061 applicants. Last year, Black male applicants increased by 5 percent and Black women...
More apply to med schools: minority enrollment rises after downturn.(FOCUS:...
Magazine article from: Fairfield County Business Journal January 3, 2005 700+ words
...individuals applied to attend medical school in the 2(X)4-2005...Hispanics who entered medical school this fall: black enrollment...highlights of the 2004-2005 medical school application cycle: * Women applicants made up just above 50...
Medical school luring professionals back home.(News)(Northern Ontario Medical...
Magazine article from: Northern Ontario Business Wareing, Andrew April 1, 2004 700+ words
...that potential in the Northern Ontario Medical School (NOMS) founding dean Roger Strasser...in Northern Ontario. In total, the medical school will have 30 full-time equivalent...says. "One of the realities of a medical school is, once it is well established...
Florida Medical-School Expansion's Price Falls.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Yeager, Melanie November 2, 1999 700+ words
...University's developing plan for a new medical school is proving to be less costly the second...million more will be needed to begin a medical school. That's a sharp drop from the...lawmakers' discussion of a possible medical school last session. The $35 million would...
University of Michigan Medical School Pioneers Interactive Data Analysis with...
Press release article from: Business Wire April 20, 2005 700+ words
...The University of Michigan Medical School has selected Infommersion...dashboard tool that allows Medical School leaders to track, compare...performance measures across all Medical School departments. Created with...
For more facts and information, see all results

Source: HighBeam Research, Women driving increase in medical school applications: 51% of...

©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA