JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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To better provide medical students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values they will need as physicians, US medical schools continue to make ongoing changes to their staffing and curricula. ⋯ While the number of applicants to US medical schools has continued to decline, student numbers are constant. The number of full-time faculty members has increased. Schools are incorporating new subject areas into their curricula, and the use of standardized methods of assessing clinical skills, while variable, is generally increasing.
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Recent specialty choices of graduating US medical students suggest that lifestyle may be an increasingly important factor in their career decision making. ⋯ Perception of controllable lifestyle accounts for most of the variability in recent changing patterns in the specialty choices of graduating US medical students.
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By selecting a specialty to train in, physicians entering graduate medical education (GME) training provide advance information about the future physician workforce. ⋯ Nearly 25% of physicians in US allopathic training programs in 2002-2003 were IMGs, and the percentage of DOs continues to increase. The number of residents conversant in Spanish could serve a need for a large US minority population.