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JAMA. 1970;212(2):312-313.

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The blight of medical education in the United States today is the shortage of manpower, especially physicians. Two years ago the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges jointly avowed that all qualified applicants seeking admission to medical schools should be accommodated and that the schools should increase enrollments substantially. The schools have responded—but slowly and inadequately. The total of first-year classes in 1968 numbered 9,479 students, and by 1973 is anticipated to be no more than 12,000.¹

Meanwhile, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on which side of the water you stand, the influx of foreign medical graduates—many of them US citizens—continues unabated. Indeed, in 1966-1967 the number of FMGs entering this country outnumbered graduates of US schools 8,540 to 7,743.² And the number of FMGs licensed to practice from 1950 through 1968 totaled 22,966.³

The chief reason that US schools do not enroll more first-year . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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