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"The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is one of six medical schools in North America under the microscope as part of a U.S.-based study examining new models of medical education for the 21st century."

"The Tour for Diversity in Medicine (TDM), a new minority medical education initiative, kicked off its inaugural bus tour this February 20-24. The TDM, a Hip Hop Health Inc. grassroots project, was inspired by the need for the medical professions workforce to more closely reflect the increasingly diverse population in the United States."

"The Gateway Medical Society, which consists of black doctors and is a Pittsburgh component of the Silver Spring, Md.-based National Medical Association, founded Journey to Medicine to provide role models to young, black males and to close the gap in racial disparities in health care."

"Despite the continuing effort of increasing the representation of women and non-white faculty, when full-time faculty are viewed in aggregate, the diversity of medical school faculty has not kept pace with the diversity of medical school students or of society overall."

"Of the 84 first-year and second-year medical students at the new Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute in Roanoke, none is African-American or Hispanic. It's not for lack of trying to recruit a more diverse student body, said David B. Trinkle, a physician and associate dean of community and culture at the new medical school, in its second year of operations."

"The KeyBank Foundation and the Cleveland Clinic announced Wednesday a $1 million gift over five years to support the Key Bank Minority Medical Student Fellowships at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University."

"The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) today announced $9.7 million in awards to 14 new grantees to increase diversity in the health professions workforce through the Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP).  The funds will help develop an educational pipeline to enhance the academic performance of economically and educationally disadvantaged students, and prepare them for careers in the health professions."

"[Dr. Victor] Salazar is part of a new KMC program that is making a small dent in that gap by bringing two Latin American-trained medical students into the family medical residency program. Their placement is part of a larger UCLA effort to bring native Spanish-speaking students to California's underserved communities -- in the hopes they'll stick around."

"University of California regents Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a controversial change in freshman admission standards that would drop the requirement for two SAT subject exams and make more students eligible for a review of their applications while guaranteeing entry to fewer.  The change is considered among the most sweeping admissions policy shifts by the university in years."