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...Then also, you have a great many people who realize that job opportunities all over are being cut back due to a lack of funds. Scientists, electronics people and others are just not finding an opportunity to work, and so they are applying to the Med School," he said...
Another major development in Med School admissions is the Minority Group Recruitment Program, under the direction of Alvin F. Poussaint,associate dean for Student Affairs, which was begun in 1968. The program sends out recruitment teams composed of a Med School Faculty member and one or two students to draw minority group applicants. The program is having some difficulty reaching qualified applicants early enough so that they can make the Med School deadline, said Elizabeth Nielsen, an administrative assistant in the recruitment program...
...foreseeable future, at least, the Med School student level is likely to remain around 140, an administrative assistant to Dean Culver said. The Med School has reached the upper limits of what its present resources can handle...
...Because students could then enter medical school directly from grade school or high school, Flexner urged a sharp increase in scientific training and no student contact with patients until the final two years of study. The ultimate result has been a kind of educational overkill. After pre-med courses in college, medical students often spend unnecessary and repetitive hours in classroom work. Although the system has created an extremely high level of academic medicine and research, it needlessly prolongs medical training and restricts the doctor supply at a time when the demand is greater than ever...
...Probably right now they feel as if they've been forgotten. Judging by the small response we received at the Med School, despite our advertising, and the lack of response from the other schools, I would say that they're probably right...