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R L Beran

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PubMed1998

Medical student financial assistance, 1996-1997.

Loans account for the major portion of financial aid available to medical students. In the academic year 1996-1997, 80.1% of all available financial aid came from loans, and medical students borrowed more than $1.11 billion. Of the 1997 medical school graduating class, 83.2% had educational debt, 46% of whom had mean educational debt levels higher than $75000.

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PubMed1994

Medical school financing 1991-1992: comparing seven different types of schools.

Medical schools are often thought of as relatively homogeneous entities with similar financial and structural characteristics. In fact, they are of several types. For this report, the authors group the 126 accredited U.S. medical schools that share at least one key characteristic (e.g., being community-based) into seven groups, provide an analysis of the differences in revenue patterns for the groups, examine intragroup differences, and present detailed information about the student financial aid that all schools provide. The data used in this analysis were derived from the schools' responses to the Part 1A and the Part 1B questionnaires of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education for the academic year 1991-92. The results of the analysis indicate that there were substantial differences in the financial structures both within and between the groups studied. The differences suggest that generalizations regarding how medical schools will be affected by impending changes in health care reform are likely to be tenuous at best.

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PubMed1987

Changes in the qualifications of medical school applicants, 1981 to 1985.

The decline in the number of medical school applicants has prompted concerns among medical educators regarding the effects of this decrease on the qualifications of the applicant pool. Changes in the qualifications of medical school applicants were analyzed in terms of age, sex, and ethnicity or racial group using two measures of quality: Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores and grade-point averages. The distributions of these measures for 1981 and 1985 applicants were compared. The results showed that there were significant but modest gains over the years in the percentage of men and women applicants who scored from 10 to 15 on the MCAT biology, chemistry, physics, and science problems subtests. There were also significant percentage gains for applicants in all age categories, except applicants over age 32, and for all ethnic or racial groups except blacks. The authors conclude that a variety of sociodemographic, educational, and selection factors may account for these changes.

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