In spite of best efforts by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the American Medical Association (AMA), and other national groups, entering medical students remain a relatively homogeneous group, with many backgrounds underrepresented. Although the combined percentage of people in the US from African American, Native American, and Hispanic backgrounds is 31 percent [1], only ro...

OBJECTIVES To determine adherence to dimensions of physical wellness among medical students of public and private medical colleges in Pakistan.   METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out from January to July 2011 among 820 students of private and public medical colleges in Karachi, Pakistan.   RESULTS Overall, medical students scored low in dimensions of physical wellness. Private...

AIMS To examine the prevalence rates and correlates of non-medical use of prescription stimulants (Ritalin, Dexedrine or Adderall) among US college students in terms of student and college characteristics. DESIGN A self-administered mail survey. SETTING One hundred and nineteen nationally representative 4-year colleges in the United States. PARTICIPANTS A representative sample of 10 904 r...

INTRODUCTION In 2006, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) issued a recommendation that medical schools increase the supply of physicians by 30% to meet the patient needs of the new millennium. OBJECTIVE To provide financial analysis of the cost of increasing class size. METHODS To determine the financial consequences of increasing medical student enrollment and in the absenc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES US medical school curricula continually undergo reform. The effect of formal curricular approaches (course organization and pedagogical techniques) on competence in medicine as measured by the United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE) Step 1, 2, and 3 is not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of formal curricular appro...