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Cardinal Numbers

September/October 2006

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Applicants to School of Medicine’s MD program in 2005: 5,648

Applicants admitted: 163

Neurosurgery residents accepted annually: 2

Years required to complete neurosurgery residency: 6

Percentage of American medical students who said lack of sleep had put them in physical danger: 25

Daily hits on “Over My Med Body,” the blog of Stanford medical student Graham Walker: 1,700

Doctors who responded to Walker’s August 2 blog entry encouraging him not to use the word “incompetent” in print: 1
            
Sources: Stanford Facts; Stanford School of Medicine; American Medical Association; “Over My Med Body.”

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