'Fauci Effect' Drives Record Number Of Medical School Applications

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Source: NPR

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The number of applicants is up 18% this year over last year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, or AAMC, driven by the example of medical workers and public health figures such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

"It's unprecedented," said Geoffrey Young, the AAMC's senior director for student affairs and programs, who compares it to another response to a traumatic moment in American history: the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"After [Sept. 11], there was a huge increase in the number of men and women that were entering into the military," Young said. "So far in my lifetime, at least, and for as long as I've been in medical education, that's the only comparison that I could make."

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Medical school admissions officers have started calling this the Fauci Effect.



Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/07/942170588/fauci-effect-drives-record-number-of-medical-school-applications

[CurtEastPoint]

1. And their debts should be forgiven if they go where assigned for 5 years, in fields that are needed

or as a GP....

[Initech]

2. And we need all the doctors we can get right now!

[KT2000]

3. maybe this is why media

should feature the many dedicated people engaged in science, engineering, and medicine, etc. Media could dispense with the celebrity coverage and remind us daily what expertise looks like.

[JI7]

6. Exactly and that has been one of the biggest problems with the media

Instead of bringing on experts to discuss the topic they have "celebrity" pundits who come on to discuss whatever topic it is.

[Lars39]

4. I wonder if there's an increase in nursing school applicants.

I’ve been very afraid there would be a decrease in applicants for both.

[Hortensis]

5. The heroes effect! This is lovely to hear.

Especially after reading that a lot of burnt-up medical professionals are expected to leave after this is over.

What I read didn't indicate how many talking of leaving acute care (hospitals) would remain in medicine. The quiet calm of specialists offices contrasts so amazingly with what's happening in hospitals, different worlds.

[DeminPennswoods]

7. This is a great opportunity to expand the US Public Health Service

as a place for these newly minted med school graduates, too.

[Midnight Writer]

8. The darkest night reveals the brightest stars.