Education & Professional Development

(5/22/2012, 6:00 p.m.)  --  America's medical schools are seeing a steady increase in first-year enrollment numbers, just as the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) projected in 2006. That's according to an AAMC report highlighting survey results that anticipate first-year medical school enrollment will reach 21,376 in 2016-17. That's a 29.6 percent increase compared with first-year enrollment statistics from 2002-03. In a May 3 news release, the AAMC noted that the United States faces a shortage of more than 90,000 primary care and subspecialty physicians by 2020. More