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. 2023 Jun 6;329(21):1882-1884.
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

Mytien Nguyen  1 , Mayur M Desai  2 , Tonya L Fancher  3 , Sarwat I Chaudhry  4 , Hyacinth R C Mason  5 , Dowin Boatright  6
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Temporal Trends in Childhood Household Income Among Applicants and Matriculants to Medical School and the Likelihood of Acceptance by Income, 2014-2019

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

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Applicants and Matriculants to Medical School by Household Income
Applicants (A) and matriculants (B) to US MD-only medical programs by household childhood income from years 2014 to 2019. Linear regression slope representing the annual percent change (APC) with the 95% CI by income group and significance from zero slope using F tests for each income group. There were 149 737 students (18.50%) who had missing childhood household income (reported “decline to answer” or “did not know”) in the original data.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Relative Risk of Acceptance to Medical School by Household Income
Adjusted relative risk of acceptance into at least 1 MD program for applicants from years 2014 to 2019, adjusting for self-reported race, ethnicity, sex, undergraduate grade point average, and the number of MD programs to which individuals applied.
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