title: Getting into medical school in the good old days: good for whom? The first Nicholas E. Davies Memorial Lecture.
abstract: Admission to medical school became selective in the 1920s and by the 1960s became increasingly expensive for applicants. The stories of three applicants, a white man who easily walked into medical school in 1908, a black woman who overcame a double hurdle in the 1930s, and a white man who entered medical school by court order, provide insight into the admissions process and its changes.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Brieger
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D012570:School Admission Criteria; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States