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Article: MEDICAL SCHOOL LESS ATTRACTIVE TO STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY MEN
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2000
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Mothers who dream about "my son the doctor" may be in for a rude
awakening.
Applications for the medical school class that enrolled this fall
were down nearly 4 percent from last year - part of a trend that has
seen a 21 percent plunge in applicants the past five years. And a
closer look at nationwide numbers released yesterday finds there were
26 percent fewer male candidates this year than five years ago, twice
the rate of decline among young women.
All of which, health analysts say, is the clearest sign yet that
the troubled medical profession is no longer as singularly seductive
as it once was.
"When you're a starry-eyed young person in college, and all you
hear when you turn on the TV ...