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...American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) found that enrollment among white males, minority groups and the poor is steadily decreasing. The decline can be attributed to the skyrocketing cost of tuition and to the popular perception that there will be a glut of doctors within the next ten years, according to an AAMC press release...
...Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has notified admissions officers at medical schools not to process the scores of the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) because this year's mean score on the test is "significantly lower" than last year's, Martha P.Leape, health careers coordinator and advisor for the Office Of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, said yesterday...
Leape said Dr. Robert Beran, associate director of the Division of Educational Measurement and Research, told her that the AAMC is going to rescore the tests but she "couldn't get him to tell me in plain English" how it is going...
Samuel L. Clark, chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and one of 20 members of the AAMC advisory committee approving the test, said yesterday that portions of the test would attempt to measure such personality traits as "empathy with people, the ability to make decisions, uncertainty, and the capacity to cope with crisis...
...second step involved close work with psychologists to evolve a method of testing these personality traits on a written examination. A committee has been formed by the AAMC to monitor and evaluate the results of the new test...