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ADDITIONS TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION Perhaps the most accurate index of actual additions to the medical profession of the United States is to be found in the medical licensure statistics collected by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association and published annually in the State Board Number ofThe JournalThe number of graduates of the medical colleges of the United States includes a certain number of students from foreign countries and does not include students from the United States graduating from Canadian medical schools. Neither does it indicate the graduates of the foreign medical schools who initiate practice in the United States. Data presented elsewhere in this issue indicate that there were 5,681 additions to the medical profession in 1941. The number lost to the profession each year by death is approximately 3,700. There has thus occurred during 1941 a net increase of approximately

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