Medical School Admission Stats for 2013

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Perhaps people might be interested in the following:</p>

<p>AAMC Reports Medical School Applicants, Enrollment Set Record
A new report from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) shows that a record number of students applied to and enrolled in the nation’s medical schools in 2013.</p>

<p>According to AAMC, the total number of applicants to medical school grew by 6.1 percent, to 48,014, surpassing the previous record set in 1996. First-time applicants, another important indicator of interest in medicine, increased by 5.8 percent to 35,727. The total
number who actually enrolled exceeded 20,000 for the first time (20,055, a 2.8 percent increase over 2012). AAMC attributed the overall growth in enrollment, in part, to the creation of new medical schools as well as existing schools’ efforts to expand their class sizes (in 2006, AAMC called for a 30 percent increase in enrollment to avert future doctor shortages). In 2013, 14 medical schools increased their class sizes by more than 10 percent and four new medical schools welcomed their first classes.</p>

<p>AAMC data also showed that the diversity of students applying to and enrolling in medical school remained relatively steady, with two notable gains: (1) the number of first-time female applicants increased by 1,102, or 6.9 percent, after remaining flat in 2012, and
(2) the number of Hispanics/Latinos attending medical school continued to increase, rising by 5.5 percent to 1,826 enrollees.</p>

<p>As in past years, the total number of men and women applying to and enrolling in medical school is fairly evenly split, with men accounting for approximately 53 percent and women for 47 percent of enrollees in the 2013 class. In addition to an increase in first time female applicants, the total number of men applying to medical school increased 5.8 percent from 24,338 applicants in 2012 to 25,760 male applicants in 2013.</p>

<p>AAMC also reported that the overall quality of this year’s application pool remained strong, with nearly three-quarters of applicants reporting research experience and two-thirds reporting voluntary community service. This year’s applicants reported an average undergraduate GPA of 3.54 and a combined median MCAT® score of 29.</p>

<p>For detailed breakdowns of the data, visit the AAMC website at: <a href="https://www.aamc.org/newsroom/newsre.../20131024.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.aamc.org/newsroom/newsre.../20131024.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p>

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<p>The problem with this is that there has not been a corresponding increase in residency positions. Residency positions are funded primarily by Medicare. So unless Congress decides to spend more money to increase residency funding, there will be a big increase in unhappy students come Match day.</p>

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<p>^but fortunately the people mentioned in that report, the vast, vast majority of the unmatched will not be US MD graduates. They will be the FMGs and the DO students.</p>

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<p>^You may be right. But in my opinion the number of unmatched US MD will go up. There is no shortage of top gunner FMG with great step 1 and years of clinical experience. Top FMG candidates will find a spot at the cost of US graduates. PDs will be hard-pressed to reject a 250 step1 FMG and take a 200 score US graduate!</p>

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<p>The number of unmatched US will probably go up but the number of unmatched non US will go up much much more. You can look at charting outcomes. Look at family medicine (page 76) <a href=“http://b83c73bcf0e7ca356c80-e8560f466940e4ec38ed51af32994bc6.r6.cf1.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/chartingoutcomes2011.pdf[/url]”>http://b83c73bcf0e7ca356c80-e8560f466940e4ec38ed51af32994bc6.r6.cf1.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/chartingoutcomes2011.pdf&lt;/a&gt; The percentage of US MD applicants with a step 1 score of 180 who matched into family medicine was 90%, a 260 step 1 for a non US MD score doesn’t even have a 75% chance of matching into FM.</p>

<p>Look at IM (page 102) roughly 80% of US MDs with a 180 matched, need over a 260 if you’re not a US MD to get those odds.</p>

<p>PDs have 0 problem passing over a 250 FMG for a 200 US MD.</p>

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<p>@yesdee, I don’t think so. If what you say ever happened, it could quickly become a political issue and PDs could become very hesitant to select FMGs.</p>

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<p>Since the residency spots are funded by US dollars, do you ever see a movement toward limiting FMGs? I could see the DO schools lobbying to fund only the residencies of US citizens or permanent residents. I don’t necessarily agree with it, but has there been talk about allowing hospitals to take FMGs just not have the spot funded by the US?
This could relieve the finite resources and allow those FMGs to self-fund their residencies.</p>