There are 175 students in the 2009 class at the U.C. College of Medicine. That's 10 more than the 2008 crop.
"There's a need for additional physicians in Hamilton county, in the Cincinnati area, in Ohio and the U.S.," said Steve Manuel, Assistant Dean.
The projected shortage, Manuel says, is due to physician retirements and an aging population.
"When you have an aging population you need more physicians and the UC College of Medicine is doing its part," added Manuel.
Enrollment is up two percent nationwide to roughly 18,400 first-year students.
"The nation's medical schools are working hard to meet the growing demand for more physicians by boosting their enrollment," said AAMC president and CEO Darrell Kirch, M.D. "But we must also increase the number of residency training slots to prevent a bottleneck in the pipeline of new physicians."
The AAMC says the residency training positions is needed to avert an expected shortage of 124,000 to 159,000 physicians by 2025.
Next year's applicant pool appears to be growing as well. 67,000 people took the Medical College Admission Test or MCAT which is up three percent over 2008.
