<P> In 1940, the Report of the Commission on Graduate Medical Education was published, which first described the overworking of interns and residents . The Liaison Commission for Medical Education was established in 1942 . </P> <P> Combination programs granting a Bachelor's degree and medical degree are relatively rare in the US . Baccalaureate - MD programs opened for the first time in 1961 at Northwestern University Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine . By the 1990s, 34 programs had opened, and in 2011, these programs were offered at 57 medical schools . Several of these schools offer programs in combination with more than one undergraduate institution, for a total of 81 programs . In all current combination programs admitting graduating high school students to receive both a bachelors and a medical degree, the medical education portion is four years in length . 80% of the programs are 8 years in length, giving no time advantage to students over the standard process, but 21% offer a compressed 6 - or 7 - year program . This is different to the programs of the 1990s, where 42% of programs were 8 years, 32% were 7 years, and 23% were 6 years . </P> <P> For years following the Flexner report, medical education in the United States has followed a standardized pattern, with two years of classroom education, followed by two years of clinical experience . Since the early 2010s, the idea of shortening medical school to three years once again has been raised as a solution to the massive debt facing medical graduates and the growing shortage of physicians in primary care specialties . A small number of universities are experimenting with three - year programs . New York University offers a 3 - year program with an early acceptance into a residency program for students that wish to apply for a specific specialty before beginning their medical education . A handful of universities, including the Penn State College of Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, offer these programs for students that commit to entering a family medicine residency . </P> <P> In general, admission into a US medical school is considered highly competitive and typically requires completion of a four - year Bachelor's degree or at least 90 credit hours from an accredited college or university . Many applicants obtain further education before medical school in the form of Master's degrees or other non science - related degrees . Admissions criteria may include overall performance in the undergraduate years and performance in a group of courses specifically required by U.S. medical schools (pre-health sciences), the score on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), application essays, letters of recommendation (most schools require either one letter from the undergraduate institution's premedical advising committee or a combination of letters from at least one science faculty and one non-science faculty), and interviews . </P>

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