Today (Thursday) the CBS published data on the candidates accepted for medical studies. Medicine is a particularly desirable profession, both because of the mission and saving lives involved, and because of the high salary that can be achieved. On the other hand, the number of students who can be accepted is limited due to the bottleneck of The clinical fields in the hospitals that reduce training for actual medicine.
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According to the CBS data, the number of those admitted to medical studies increased by only 22.7% between 2005 (2005) and 2021 (2021), while the number of those rejected jumped by 150%. Today, the average psychometric score of those admitted is 731 , compared to 694 who were rejected. The average matriculation score of those admitted is 106, and that of those rejected – 104. Both the matriculation scores and the psychometric scores are quite high and similar compared to the past, and higher records have already been recorded – which may indicate that they have turned from filtering factors – into threshold conditions. Now, Apparently, the screening is done more based on the personal interviews and other factors.
While in the past the number of men and women admitted to medical studies were similar, today there is a clear majority of women: at the Israel Medical University, 526 of those admitted to medical studies were women, compared to only 327 men. This disparity is also evident among the applicants: 1,534 women tried to be admitted to medical studies in 2021, compared to only 942 men.
A much higher chance for the higher deciles
Those admitted to medicine usually come from relatively well-established families, who are able to support the great effort required to be admitted to medical studies – and then also to actually complete the course. 84.7% of the applicants admitted to medicine at the Israel Medical University had at least one parent with an academic education, where this rate is 7.2 percentage points higher than the corresponding rate in 2005 (77.5%). Also in terms of the father’s income, for 80% of those admitted to medical studies at the Israel Medical University, the father’s income is in one of the top 3 deciles, compared to only 5% of the bottom 3 deciles. That is, the odds ratio of the top 3 deciles to be candidates for medicine is 16 times compared to The 3 lower deciles.
The rate of medical training in Israel is very low compared to the rest of the world: only one doctor per year for every 40 hospital beds (compared to the OECD average of 30), and the rate of doctors in Israel is expected to deteriorate further with the retirement of veteran doctors, many of whom are immigrants from the USSR. Today, about 30 % of the doctors in Israel are over the age of 60, and they will retire sooner or later. In order to reach a proper rate of doctors, a way must be found to speed up the training of new ones.