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.
