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 in | The New England journal of medicine Vol. 311; no. 24; p. 1583 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
United States
Massachusetts Medical Society
13.12.1984
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Summary: | To the Editor:
A recent article by Iglehart
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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 — . . .
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ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJM198412133112424 |