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Medical School Enrollment Continues to Rise to Meet Physician Need. But Future Graduates Could Face Shortage of Residency Training Slots
AAMC Newsroom, 10/22/09

First–year enrollment in the nation's medical schools rose this year by 2 percent over 2008 to nearly 18,400 students. Four new U.S. medical schools—FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, The Commonwealth Medical College, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, and the University of Central Florida College of Medicine—seated their first entering classes this year, accounting for half of the 2009 enrollment increase. In addition, 12 existing medical schools expanded their 2009 class size by 7 percent or more. Expansion in medical school enrollment as well as graduate medical education, or "residency" training positions is needed to avert an expected shortage of 124,000 to 159,000 physicians by 2025. As a result, the AAMC supports the "Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act" (S.973/H.R.2251), which increases the number of Medicare–supported training positions for medical residents by 15 percent (approximately 15,000 slots).

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