MCAT and Choice of Family Medicine

The following involve choice of office based family medical school by a number of factors.

MCAT and FP 2005 Scatterplot The higher the MCAT, the lower the physician distribution.

Birth Origin

Puerto Rico Schools Traditional Black Schools UCLA, Davis, Irvine MCAT 10.6 - 12 MCAT 10.08 - 10.54 MCAT 9.76 - 10.05 MCAT 9.5 - 9.76 MCAT 9.15 - 9.49 MCAT  8.6 - 9.15 Duluth, Mercer
Core Metro Over 1 Million Birth 8.6% 16.3% 17.5% 5.1% 8.5% 10.0% 11.3% 12.1% 17.5% 35.0%
Metro Less Than 1 Million Birth 11.5% 17.6% 20.5% 6.9% 11.5% 14.5% 14.5% 15.5% 18.1% 35.1%
NonMetro Organized 25.0% 18.2% 21.1% 7.8% 16.1% 18.2% 17.1% 18.6% 22.9% 36.7%
NonMetro Less Organized   34.2% 27.3% 13.3% 20.4% 22.6% 18.3% 23.1% 26.4% 49.4%
Foreign Born US Schooled 9.9% 11.4% 16.7% 3.5% 5.8% 8.3% 8.2% 10.9% 14.0% 25.7%
Birth State Only Known 22.2% 0.0% 13.3% 5.5% 9.7% 6.4% 17.2% 10.0% 19.5%  
Born PR, GU, VI 6.4% 20.0% 38.5% 2.3% 7.3% 9.6% 15.5% 13.5% 15.8%  
Military Base Birth 12.5% 12.0% 24.1% 6.5% 6.4% 10.5% 11.5% 15.5% 17.9% 25.0%
Unknown Birth Location 50.0% 20.6% 7.4% 3.5% 6.2% 7.5% 6.0% 10.6% 26.5%  
  7.3% 16.0% 18.3% 5.4% 9.3% 11.7% 12.1% 14.2% 18.9% 35.9%

Birth data demographics vary greatly for Puerto Rican graduates.

The higher the MCAT, the lower the choice of FP by about 4 - 9 FP graduates a year for each MCAT point (bioscience or all three scores averaged)

Comparing Physician Distribution and the MCAT

MCAT Changes 1992-2002

Schools with a good baseline threshold of MCAT have low failure rates and higher choice of family medicine. Those competing for the elite students in MCAT are not going to graduate much beyond urban and subspecialty physicians.

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