While the debate continues to rage over the health care reform bill in Washington D.C., the newest class of 15,000-plus graduating medical students will get their marching orders, beginning their lives working in medicine.
It’s called Match Day and each year, on the third Thursday of March, the nation’s graduating medical school students gather with their classmates and wait for an envelope with their name on it.
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/03/match-day-medical-school-celebrates.html
Those of us in academic medicine are well aware of the pressures to increase medical school enrollment to address the nationwide physician shortage. At the University of Texas Medical Branch, we have increased our medical student class size by 10 percent over the last four years.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7475605.html 
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