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.
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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
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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