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Four new medical schools contribute to increase in first-year enrollment – MedCity Morning Read, Oct. 21, 2009

Medical school enrollment rose by 2 percent this year, thanks, in part, to four new medical schools, according to data released Tuesday by the Association of American Medical Colleges. From 2008 to 2009, first-year enrollment rose from 18,036 to 18,390. Those students came from an applicant pool of 42,269.

By Sarah Latson on October 21, 2009
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Medical school enrollment rose by 2 percent this year, thanks, in part, to four new medical schools, according to data released Tuesday by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

From 2008 to 2009, first-year enrollment rose from 18,036 to 18,390. Those students came from an applicant pool of 42,269, the data (pdf) shows.

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The new schools that seated their first classes this year are: FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami, Florida; The Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton, Pennsylvania; Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine in El Paso; and the University of Central Florida College of Medicine in Orlando. They welcomed a total of 189 medical students.

Twelve other schools also contributed to the enrollment increase by expanding their class sizes by 7 percent or more, according to the AAMC. At the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, first-year enrollment jumped nearly 21 percent – from 86 students in 2008 to 104 in 2009.

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