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ALT Screenshot from a December 7, 2020 news story from NPR entitled, “Fauci Effect Drives Record Number of Medical School Applications,” and notes that applications are up 18%.
ALT Graphic demonstrating number of first-time applicants to U.S. MD-granting medical schools from 2013 to 2022. After peaking in the 2021-2022 cycle, applications are down 17% last year.
ALT #AAMC22 | Nashville, TN | Table Topics Lunch Opportunity and Resource Disparities in Fostering Admissible MCAT Scores: Systemic Ideas to Address the Disparities and Strengthen Diversity Many aspects of the medical school admissions process are impacted by disparities in applicants’ educational opportunities and resources. MCAT scores, GPAs, letters of recommendation, and internships have disparities that may impact the acceptance of some subgroups of students. This session will focus on GPAs and the MCAT. Equity-minded premedical advisors and admissions officers have ongoing challenges in addressing these disparities in impactful ways to strengthen diversity. While good individual and school-based work is being done, this situation calls for systemic ideas and solutions. Please bring your bold ideas, and/or an openness to hearing the ideas of others, to this discussion. Saturday, November 12 | 11:45am | Table 131 Host: Jay Rosner, JD | The Princeton Review Foundation
ALT You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your grade. Please rate the effectiveness of each response to this situation.
ALT During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but, after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a debriefing session with your professor.
ALT Graph showing 53,370 medical school applicants in 2019-2020 and 53,030 in 2020-2021.
