Increase In Applications To Medical
Schools In America Being Attributed To Dr. Anthony Fauci
December 11. 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Donald Trump
This is a follow up to the November 18, 2020
article “Carrie Underwood
Cried Like A Sore Loser Over Awards She Doesn't Deserve Indicative Of A
Problem In Hollywood.” In the aforementioned article I
stated, “In closing, the only good I can see that could possibly
come from this current, horrible coronavirus pandemic is young,
impressionable people are getting the opportunity to see people like
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, at the forefront with other
doctors, scientists and nurses saving lives. Maybe it will inspire
them to take a different career path, as opposed to following the
negative, unlawful examples of the current batch of celebrities in
Hollywood.”
2-weeks later on December 7, 2020, Yahoo
News reported that “Medical schools across the U.S. are seeing
applications jump. Could the 'Fauci effect' be the reason?” The
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) announced “the
number of students applying to enter medical school in 2021 is up 18
percent from this time last year.” This is good news in light of
what has happened. The country needs medical professionals.
STORY SOURCE
Medical schools across the U.S. are seeing
applications jump. Could the 'Fauci effect' be the reason?
Mon, December 7, 2020, 4:09 PM EST·- The medical
community has been front and center ever since the COVID-19 pandemic
began. Frontline workers have been the subject of nightly applause
and regular praise and have generally been seen as a comforting
presence during a time of extreme uncertainty.
Now, it seems, more people want to join their
ranks. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges
(AAMC), the number of students applying to enter medical school in
2021 is up 18 percent from this time last year. By comparison, the
average increase over the previous 10 years was 2.5 percent. “This
large of an increase is unprecedented,” Geoffrey Young, senior
director of student affairs and programs at AAMC, tells Yahoo Life.
Top medical schools across the country are reporting an increase in
applications, representatives tells Yahoo Life.
“We have seen a growth in the number of
applications,” Ekaterina Pesheva, director of science communications
and media relations at Harvard Medical School, tells Yahoo Life.
“Compared to last year, the number of completed applications
submitted to Harvard Medical School this year has increased by 19
percent.”
This isn’t unique to Harvard: Dr. Augustine M.K.
Choi, dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, tells Yahoo that they’ve seen
a 10 percent increase in medical school applications compared with
last year. Dr. Jesus Vallejo, associate dean of admissions,
diversity, equity and multicultural affairs at Baylor College of
Medicine, tells Yahoo Life that the school’s applications have grown
23 percent since the last cycle. “We received over 9,600
applications for the 102 spots in the entering class,” Dr. Rafael
Rivera, associate dean for admission and financial aid at the NYU
Grossman School of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life, noting a 4 percent
increase in applications received this year.
Other increases are even more jaw-dropping. Dr.
Clarence Braddock, vice dean for education at the David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA, tells Yahoo Life that applications for
the medical school are up 30 percent. While Braddock says that it’s
“common for applications to go up a bit each year,” typical
increases are usually nowhere near that number. “Probably next year
will be a smaller increase, perhaps 7 to 8 percent,” he says. And
Dr. Iris C. Gibbs, associate dean of MD admissions and professor of
radiation oncology at Stanford Medicine, tells Yahoo Life that the
school has experienced an approximately 50 percent increase over its
previous record year of applications.
Why is this happening now? It’s hard to say for
sure. Some have cited the calming guidance of Dr. Anthony Fauci,
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases. “Dr. Fauci is a wonderful mentor in medicine as a goal of
what to aspire to,” Dr. Jessica Shepherd, an ob-gyn and surgeon in
Texas, tells Yahoo Life. “Hopefully his consistency and medical
acumen will encourage others.”…
https://www.yahoo.com
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