Temporal Trends in Childhood Household Income Among Applicants and Matriculants to Medical School and the Likelihood of Acceptance by Income, 2014-2019

Mytien Nguyen; Mayur M Desai; Tonya L Fancher; Sarwat I Chaudhry; Hyacinth R C Mason; Dowin Boatright

doi:10.1001/jama.2023.5654

Temporal Trends in Childhood Household Income Among Applicants and Matriculants to Medical School and the Likelihood of Acceptance by Income, 2014-2019

JAMA. 2023 Jun 6;329(21):1882-1884. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.5654.

Authors

Mytien Nguyen¹, Mayur M Desai², Tonya L Fancher³, Sarwat I Chaudhry⁴, Hyacinth R C Mason⁵, Dowin Boatright⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York.

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Plain language summary

This study examines trends in childhood household income among applicants and matriculants to medical school and the likelihood of acceptance by income.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Economic Status*
Educational Measurement / economics
Educational Measurement / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Income* / statistics & numerical data
Income* / trends
Probability
School Admission Criteria* / statistics & numerical data
School Admission Criteria* / trends
Schools, Medical* / economics
Schools, Medical* / statistics & numerical data
Schools, Medical* / trends
Students, Medical* / statistics & numerical data

Plain language summary

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding