Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – The future of North Rhine-Westphalian medicine is female – at least if you take the number of students as a benchmark. In the 2021/22 winter semester, a good 64 percent of medical students in NRW were women. Ten years earlier, almost 62 percent were women, as reported by the state statistics office in Düsseldorf on Monday.
The total number of medical students at universities in NRW increased by 23 percent in a ten-year comparison: In the winter semester 2021/22, 18,115 people aspired to the first state examination in medicine – not including dentistry. In the winter semester 2011/12 there were 14,728. Most medical students were recently at the universities of Düsseldorf, Cologne and Bochum. The number of graduates in NRW increased by 9.4 percent: 1981 people took their first state examination in medicine in the 2021 examination year (examination year 2011: 1811).
