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Increasing Medical School Enrollment to Combat Physician Shortage: Solution or Placebo?

By Kevin Christensen
Published: June / July 2008

In June 2006, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) announced its recommendation that U.S. medical schools increase their enrollment by 30% by 2015 to redress the growing shortage of physicians. Reactions to the announcement were mixed. In the inaugural TPS debate, two students from Mayo Clinic College of Medice, an institution that recently increased its class size by approximately 20%, capture the widely diverging opinions on the matter.

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