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.”
