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How Does Your Medical School Compare?
Medical schools are at the forefront of the increasing wave of medical women. Currently, over 36% of all medical students are women. School by school, that number varies from 53.6% at the Medical College of Pennsylvania to a dismal 17% at the University of Utah. The percentage of women first-year students in the 1989-90 school year ranged from a high of 57% at Rush Medical College in Chicago to a low of 20.2% in Utah.
These numbers, however, are deceptive. While the number of women students is increasing, it is growing in an arena with no power, no authority to implement policy, and no venue to speak out effectively for change. In essence, these women are virtually invisible in the field of medicine, and their presence as medical students is no guarantee that women will become visible in the higher ranks.
But even at the medical student ranks women are far from equal. Note, for example, that of the 127 medical schools operating today, equal numbers of women are present in only four student bodies. There is still much progress to be made.
Percentage of Students Who Are Women at U.S. Medical Schools School %Women Rank School %Women Rank ---------------------------------------------------------- Alabama 27.9 118 Creighton 27.6 120 S. Alabamath 40.1 30 Dartmouth 48.7 6 Albany 33.5 92 Duke 30.9 108 Albert Einst 41.8 21 East Carolina 37.8 54 Arizona 44.0 16 Emory 33.7 89 Arkansas 28.2 117 Florida 41.3 26 Baylor 37.3 61 Florida, South 31.8 104 Boston 42.0 19 G. Washington 40.3 29 Bowman Gray 32.1 100 Georgetown 32.2 99 Brown 43.6 17 Georgia, Medical S. Calif 32.6 95 College of 30.8 109 U California: Hahnemann 36.1 68 Davis 39.8 33 Harvard 39.1 41 Irvine 38.7 46 Hawaii 33.9 88 LA 42.3 18 Howard 51.8 2 San Diego 33.1 94 S. Illinois 35.6 70 San Fran & U of Illinois 32.3 97 Berkeley 44.5 15 Indiana 31.1 106 Caribe 37.9 53 Iowa 33.4 93 CW Reserve 45.0 12 Jefferson 34.0 87 Chicago Med 32.0 101 Johns Hopkins 39.5 36 Chicago-Prit 31.9 102 Kansas 31.0 107 Cincinnati 38.3 51 Kentucky 32.4 96 Colorado 41.1 27 Loma Unda 31.2 105 Columbia 37.8 54 Louisiana State Connecticut 47.5 8 New Orleans 30.8 109 Cornell 38.6 50 --------------------------------------------------------- Louisiana State- Penn State 35.9 69 Shreveport 29.2 114 Penn, Univ. of 34.3 84 Louisville 36.8 64 Pittsburgh 27.0 123 Loyola-Str 39.4 39 Ponce 34.7 76 Marshall 37.4 58 Puerto Rico 39.5 36 Maryland 38.2 52 Rochester 41.8 21 Mass. 45.2 10 Rush 44.6 14 Mayo 41.7 23 Saint Louis 25.0 125 Meharry 46.7 9 Med Univ of Mercer 39.4 36 South Carolina 31.9 102 Miami 34.5 81 U of S Carolina 27.2 121 Michigan St 49.8 5 South Dakota 34.2 85 U of Mich 34.4 83 Stanford 33.7 89 Minn-Duluth 51.0 3 Temple 38.7 46 Minn-Minn 38.7 46 Tennessee State 34.7 76 Mississippi 25.4 124 U of Tennessee 29.5 113 Missou-Col 34.5 81 Texas AM 39.1 41 Missou-KC 50.1 4 Texas Tech 29.0 115 Morehouse 48.3 7 U of Texas: Mount Sinai 45.2 10 at Dallas (SW) 33.6 91 Nebraska 37.6 56 at Galveston 30.0 112 Nevada 37.6 56 at Houston 38.8 44 New Jersey: at San Antonio 37.5 58 UMDNJ-NJM 35.2 72 Tufts 39.6 35 UMDNJ-RWJ 34.7 76 Tulane 34.6 79 New Mexico 42.0 19 Uniformed Serv 21.4 126 New York Med 38.7 46 Utah 17.1 127 NY Univer 34.8 75 Vanderbilt 27.2 121 New York: Vermont 44.7 13 SUNY-Brook 35.2 72 Virginia, East 39.9 32 SUNY-Buff 41.5 25 Med Col of Virg 34.6 79 SUNY-Stony 38.8 44 UVA 37.2 62 SUW-Syracuse 36.3 66 Washington Univ N Carolina 40.6 28 (St. Louis) 27.7 119 N Dakota 34.1 86 U Wash 40.1 30 Northwestern 37.5 58 Wayne State 36.2 67 Ohio Med Col 39.3 40 W Virginia 32.3 97 Ohio, NE 41.7 23 Wisconsin, Ohio State 35.3 71 Med. Coll. of 36.8 64 Oklahoma 28.7 116 U Wisconsin 37.0 63 Oral Roberts 30.2 111 Wright State 39.8 33 Oregon 38.9 43 Yale 35.1 74
