Word: meds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fewer apply to med school...
...wanted for a very long time to I become a doctor," says Michael Weber. "It was my goal when I was very young." But after only two quarters in the pre-med program at Ohio State University, Weber, 20, discouraged by the emphasis on specialization, the hard work and the prospect of more of the same for years to come, switched to the humanities. Weber is just one of a growing number of would-be physicians who are voluntarily dropping out of the medical school admissions sweepstakes. This year the number of applicants to the 122 U.S. medical schools, which...
Explains Father Joseph Walters, pre-med adviser at Notre Dame: "Students face borrowing $50,000 to finance medical school. Later, with the high cost of malpractice insurance, they would need an income of $5,000 a month to start a practice and pay back the debt. The opportunities of earning $60,000 a year right out of med school are rarely there...
With better guidance from pre-med counselors, students are more accurately assessing their chances of getting into medical school. Ethan Schuman, 23, a senior with a 3.5 average (on a scale of 4) at Boston's Northeastern University, wanted to be a doctor but decided not to apply. "The word among students is that you need at least a 3.8 average before they look at you. I guess I was simply not ready to take the gamble of spending four years in college and then not making it into graduate school. The good part is that I am missing...
...first sentence came in an extended quote concerning administration and faculty power at the Med School. Holmes contended, and other sources agreed, that the faculty council acts as an independent cabinet, with much more power relative to the administration than most such bodies. To avoid repetition, I used only the sentence quoted from that analysis...