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JAMA. 1970;214(9):1698.

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From Sept 1, 1966, through Dec 31,1968, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education surveyed and accredited 26 medical schools. For 25 of the schools Smythe¹ has presented data among which the following are interesting.

The range of total expenditures was from $3.68 million at a school enrolling 85 first-year students to $49.7 million at a school with 132 first-year enrollees. The median for total expenditures was $11.95 million. The school ranking 16th in total expenditures ($10.58 million) enrolled 186 first-year students, a number exceeded by only one other school, which ranked third in total expenditures ($25.73 million) and had an entering class of 206 students. Numbers of first-year classes ranged from 61 to 206 (median 91).

The full-time faculty:student ratios for the four schools mentioned were as follows:

Smythe's scholarly study includes many other indices of operation of the 25 schools—activities of important departments, space allocations, numbers of hospital beds. However, the few data selected . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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