RT Journal
T1 GEographic restrictions in admission to medical schools
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD September 3
VO 141
IS 1
SP 92
OP 92
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02910010094010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02910010094010
AB The report of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals in this issue on the states or countries of origin of freshman medical students indicates that a number of medical schools, particularly those supported by states and municipalities, are limiting admissions more and more closely to residents of the state in which the schools are located. During the past year thirteen schools did not admit out-of-state students and five other schools admitted only one or two nonresidents. Only twenty-one schools admitted more nonresident than resident students.In the last prewar year out-of-state students constituted 17.4 per cent of the freshman enrolments in the state and municipal schools. During the past academic year the percentage of nonresident students in the freshman classes of these schools was only 8.2 per cent. In the privately owned schools the percentages of out-of-state freshman students for these years were 52.9 per cent and 50.9 per