Reduction in Medical-School Class Size

To the Editor: A recent article by Iglehart 1 mentioned that Duke University will reduce the size of its entering medical-school class by 12 per cent (from 114 to 100 students) in response to a perceived future surplus of physicians. Duke is not the only medical school that is reducing enrollment. E...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 311; no. 24; p. 1583
Main Authors Schroeder, Steven A, Gerbert, Barbara, Showstack, Jonathan A, Chapman, Susan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 13.12.1984
Subjects
Humans
Students, Medical
United States
United States
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Summary:To the Editor: A recent article by Iglehart 1 mentioned that Duke University will reduce the size of its entering medical-school class by 12 per cent (from 114 to 100 students) in response to a perceived future surplus of physicians. Duke is not the only medical school that is reducing enrollment. Each of the six medical schools that we visited on behalf of the Task Force on Academic Health Centers had reduced the size of its entering class within the past several years. The reductions ranged from 5 students (three schools) to 13 students and averaged about 5 per cent — . . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM198412133112424