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Gene Powell
University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston

JAMA. 1970;213(8):1345.

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To the Editor.—

I was both surprised and distressed to read in The Journal (212:1874, 1970) the following:

The greatest number of graduates from any one school to be examined in 1969 was 261 from the University of Iowa. Of this number, only one graduate failed. Other schools with sizeable numbers of graduates taking the state board examinations were the universities of Michigan, Indiana, Texas, Ohio, and Tennessee, with 218, 205, 194, 161, and 159 candidates respectively. Of these schools, only one, the University of Texas, had an unusually large number of graduates fail that state's board examination. Fifty-six of the 195 candidates from that school failed the Texas board examination, and one other Texas graduate failed the licensure examination in Washington state and on page 1876:

As in previous years, graduates of the University of Texas and Southwestern Medical School had a difficult time in passing all subjects . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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