Several prominent medical schools have reported plans to increase enrollment next year in order to meet the nation’s ballooning demand for doctors. According to a Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions survey, 44 percent of the 85 medical schools surveyed said they have considered sending out a greater number of acceptance letters for the 2009 -‘10 academic year. Additionally, one-third of the schools said they were planning to increase their class size by 5 to 15 percent. Kaplan Director of Pre-Health Programs Amjed Mustafa said the decision to admit more students is related to the urgent need for doctors across the country. “There is a looming doctor shortage and everyone is talking about it,” Mustafa said. “But there is a problem of supply of doctors as well as a problem of demand. Our baby boom generation is getting older and retiring, and we’re going to need a lot more doctors” According to Russell Schaffer, Kaplan’s senior communications manager, the Association of American Medical Colleges – which administers the MCAT – recommended in 2006 a 30 percent increase in U.S. medical school enrollment by 2015. Medical schools that participated in the survey include the UCLA and UCSD Schools of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, among others. Mustafa predicted that the results of the survey would provide pre-med students with optimism amid the current diminishing job market. “The admissions process will remain very, very competitive, but generally students know if they want to go to medical school at a very early age so they’re looking for any advantage available to them,” Mustafa said.
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