The Metrics and Demographics of NW Medical Student Matriculation An Exploration

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The Metrics and Demographics of NW Medical
Student Matriculation An Exploration

• Tom Levitan, M.Ed.
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NW applicant growth 2004-2005

• Osteopathic applicants
• Northwest applicant growth 26 from 214 to 269
• National applicant growth 13 from 7569 to 8597
• Allopathic applicants
• Northwest applicant growth 4.1 from 1343 to 1399
• National applicant growth 4.6 from 35,735 to
  37,364

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Undergraduate colleges 2005applicants Alaska
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Undergraduate colleges 2005 applicants -- Idaho
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Undergraduate colleges 2005 applicants Montana
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Undergraduate colleges 2005 applicants -- Oregon
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Undergraduate colleges 2005 applicants
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Osteopathic Medical Education in the
pre-Flexnerian period

• Flexner identified 8 osteopathic colleges
  Chicago (Littlejohn), Des Moines (Still),
  Kirksville, Kansas City (Central), Philadelphia,
  Cambridge, and 2 in Los Angeles (Los Angeles and
  Pacific). Gevitz notes 10 others.
• 1300 students total (Flexner).
• Average annual tuition of 160 (Flexner).
• The eight osteopathic schools fairly reek with
  commercialism. Their catalogues are a mass of
  hysterical exaggerations, alike of the earning
  and curative power of osteopathy. (Flexner)
• One-fifth of osteopathic graduates before 1910
  were women. (Gevitz)
• Standardized instructional period of
  approximately 20 months. (Gevitz)

Source Flexner, A. The Flexner Report...,
1910. Gevitz, N. The D.O.s, 1982.
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Development of New COMs
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Questions, comments?

• The presentation can be downloaded from
• http//www.aacom.org/data
• Or contact Tom Levitan
• tlevitan_at_aacom.org