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AAMC Concerned about Reports of Unmatched Students
Washington, D.C., March 15, 2013— AAMC (Association of American Medical
Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following
statement about the results of the 2013 Main Residency Match:
“Match Day is usually a day of excitement, enthusiasm, and joy for medical
students around the country. While that remains true for most graduating
medical students, we are very troubled by reports about significant numbers
of highly qualified U.S. medical school graduates who did not match to
residency training positions.
While we are waiting to learn the exact number of unmatched students, the
reports coming from our member medical schools are cause for significant
concern, and demonstrate the urgent need to increase federal support for
graduate medical education.
Yesterday, we were very pleased to see reintroduction of the “Training
Tomorrow’s Doctors Today Act” by Reps. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) and Allyson
Schwartz (D-Pa.), and the “Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of
2013” sponsored by Sens. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.),
and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
The increase in the number of Medicare-supported graduate medical education
residency positions proposed in these measures would begin to alleviate the
doctor shortage facing the nation by allowing medical schools and teaching
hospitals to train between 3,000 and 4,000 more physicians a year. We
applaud these lawmakers for their leadership.
With a nationwide shortage of 90,000 physicians projected by 2020, U.S.
medical schools are on track to increase their enrollment by 30 percent. In
fact, the 960 additional graduating medical school students participating in
this year’s Main Residency Match are due primarily to four new medical
schools included in this year’s Match and the efforts of existing schools
to expand enrollment.
To avert the coming shortage, we need to begin today to increase the
overall supply of physicians in this country by lifting the cap on residency
training positions imposed in 1997 by the Balanced Budget Act. Inaction
will only mean extensive shortages of both primary care physicians and a
wide range of specialists. Reducing our nation’s deficit is important. But
the question must be asked: If there aren’t enough doctors, what will you
do?”
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The Association of American Medical Colleges is a not-for-profit association
representing all 141 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical
schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including
51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and nearly 90 academic
and scientific societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the
AAMC represents 128,000 faculty members, 75,000 medical students, and 110,
000 resident physicians. | m*******1
发帖数: 328 | 2 其实美国的med students有很多差生。尤其是med schools进门就不是很公平，在很大
程度上是按照ethnicity去stratify candidates。 但是社会是相对公平的，不行就不
行，靠优惠进来的，在这个level就出局了。 | h*******y
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