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LUNDBERG COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER FOR HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will award doctor of medicine degrees to 126 women and men from 30 states and three foreign countries at the commencement exercises May 27, 1999. The class is the 104th to graduate since the Baltimore, Md., school opened in 1893. Johns Hopkins is among the most selective medical schools in the nation, with 3,006 applicants for 120 places for the freshman class this fall.
George Lundberg, M.D., embattled former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and recently named editor-in-chief of Medscape, a leading Internet site for health and medical information, is the commencement speaker. Lundberg is the founding editor of Medscape General Medicine, an Internet-based, peer-reviewed, general medicine journal and holds appointments at the Harvard School of Public Health and Northwestern University.
Members of this year's graduating class will continue training at 52 hospitals and medical institutions in 21 states.
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