ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – Virginia Tech Carilion School of Drugs welcomed its most recent class to the Star Metropolis this week.

“This is a single of my beloved months at the medical college simply because we get to welcome our subsequent class of pupils. This is our 13th class, we’re moving into our teenage decades now at the professional medical faculty,” mentioned Lee Learman, dean of VTCSOM.

VTCSOM chose 49 learners out of 6,916 candidates, a report quantity of applicants for the university. A different file VTCSOM achieved is that 31 of the 49 college students are ladies.

“There’s a national pattern for expanding figures of feminine candidates to professional medical faculty. In the past couple of decades we’ve essentially been a minimal bit more than that development in having extra female than male students we’re about 60, 63% this calendar year.”

VTCSOM is happy of what it has to supply these pupils as they shift forward in their instruction.

”A quite significant element of becoming listed here in this clinical faculty is recognizing how significant it is to become engaged with our local community. Beyond that, we acquire gain of our dad and mom, Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic, to provide an fantastic instruction. So we get the greatest of both of those planet for students and they have a wonderful time becoming listed here.”

For far more details on VTCSOM’s course of 2026, read the press release below:

“The Virginia Tech Carilion College of Medicine (VTCSOM) officially welcomed users of its Class of 2026 to start off their healthcare education and learning this 7 days. The 49 higher-acquiring college students were chosen from a document amount of 6,916 applicants as VTCSOM continues to be one particular of the most selective medical universities in the nation. The variety of applicants was an maximize of a lot more than 500 from the former year.

VTCSOM enrolled a document 31 female students, accounting for 63 per cent of the course. About 55 per cent of final year’s coming into course was female. In accordance to the American Association of Healthcare Schools, the share of feminine college students nationally has steadily improved around the previous 10 years from 46.4 p.c in 2012-13 to 55.5 per cent in 2021-22.

“I warmly welcome our most recent class of college students to the Virginia Tech Carilion University of Medicine and to the Roanoke location. The four decades forward…