Last week the Association of American Medical Colleges released new data highlighting a 1.5% increase in the number of minority students enrolled in U.S. medical schools to 18,665.
The ethnic or racial group that saw the largest enrollment increase in 2010 was the Hispanic male contingency which increased 17.1% since last year. (Hispanic female enrollment increased by 1.6%.)
“Improving the diversity of U.S. medical students will be a driver of excellence in our health care system,” said Dr. Darrell G. Kirch, AAMC President and CEO, in an AAMC press release. “We are very encouraged that more minority students are pursuing a career in medicine, and hope that these strong gains continue in the years ahead.”
The recent data also shows an increase in the number of first-time applicants to med school; this number increased 2.5% from 31,063 applicants in 2009 to 31,834 in 2010. The total applicant pool increased from 42,269 in 2009 to 42,742 in 2010. Of these applicants, 53% were male and 47% were female.
For more information on the AAMC findings, please review its recent press release or the article in Inside Higher Ed, “Medical Schools Slowly Grow.”
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