Medical Schools Enjoy Staffing Increases

There are more faculty members at U.S. medical schools and about half the applicants and students entering medical schools are women, says an article in the Sept. 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The article includes data from the 2003-2004 Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which was sent to the deans of 126 LCME-accredited medical schools. There was a 100 percent response rate. The data revealed a 4.6 percent increase is the number of full-time medical school faculty members, from 109,526 in 2002-2003 to 114,549 in 2003-2004.