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September 04, 2002
Another Drop in Medical School Applicants
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Barbara Barzansky, PhD, and Sylvia I. Etzel, of the Division of Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education Policy and Standards, American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill, used data from the 2001-2002 Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) Annual Medical School Questionnaire and other sources to describe the status of medical education programs in the United States. The questionnaire was sent to the deans of all 125 LCME-accredited US medical schools, with a 100 percent response rate.
"A total of 34 859 individuals applied to the entering class of 2001, a 6.0 percent decrease from 2000 and a 9.5 percent decrease from 1999," the authors write. "The number of accepted applicants has remained constant at about 17 000. For 2001-2002, the ratio of applicants to accepted applicants was 2 to 1. In 2001, a total of 16 717 women applied to medical school, a 3 percent decrease from 2000 and a 4 percent decrease from 1999. Women comprised 48 percent of total applicants in 2001 compared with 46.6 percent in 2000 and 45.2 percent in 1999."
Of the first-year students in 2001, 47.8 percent were women and 13.1 percent were members of underrepresented minority groups.
The researchers also found that the percentage of women in medical schools has increased slightly. "In 2001-2002, there were a total of 66 219 students enrolled in medical school. Of these, 45.7 percent were women and 12.6 percent were members of underrepresented minority groups (black, Native American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican)," the authors write. "Total enrollment in 1999-2000 was comparable at 66 500, which included 43.9 percent women and 13.3 percent members of underrepresented minority groups.
The authors found that median tuition and fees for medical schools continued to increase. Tuition and fees for private medical schools during the 2001-2002 academic year were $30 897 for in-state residents and $31 296 for nonresidents. Median tuition and fees for public medical schools were $12 399 for in-state residents and $27 297 for nonresidents. Compared with 1999-2000, this represents a 9.5 percent increase for private schools for in-state residents, an 8.5 percent increase for private schools for nonresidents, a 13.3 percent increase for public schools for in-state residents, and a 12.6 percent increase for public schools for nonresidents. According to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the average educational debt of 2001 graduates was $99 089, compared with $90 745 in 1999 and $94 901 in 2000.
In the 2001-2002 academic year, there were 104 949 full-time faculty members in LCME-accredited US medical schools, which is a 2.4 percent increase from 1999-2000. "The number of women faculty members has increased since the 1970s. However, the proportion of women on medical school faculties (currently about 30 percent) has not increased as rapidly as in the student body (now about 46 percent of total enrollment). Overall, the proportion of faculty members who are members of minority groups has increased, but the percentage of faculty members who are black or Hispanic has not changed significantly since the mid-1970s," the authors write.
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