Med School Applications & Enrollment Both Rising, AAMC Says

The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that medical school application volume and medical school enrollment both increased between 2005 and 2006.

The number of people applying to enter M.D. programs at U.S. schools this fall grew by approximately 4.5 per cent over last year, the AAMC says. Over 39,000 individual applicants sought medical school admission during the 2005-2006 application season.

Medical schools also increased their intake of first-year students, although, on the national scale, enrollment only grew at about half the pace that application volume did.

Total U.S. medical school student enrollment grew by about 2.2 per cent over the past year.

Approximately one-fifth of the 128 AAMC member schools increased their intake by 5 per cent or more. Several top-ranked schools, including Brown and Boston University, increased their enrollment by 15 per cent or more.

Source: "U.S. Medical School Enrollment Continues to Climb" - press release, AAMC (Washington, DC), October 18, 2006