"Since 2004, the number of Hispanic applicants to American medical schools has increased 22.9 percent, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. There was a nearly 6 percent rise between 2010 and 2011, from 3,271 to 3,459."
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Northern Ontario Medical Journal
October 2012
"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 Plain Dealer
April 30, 2012
"The Cleveland State University and Northeast Ohio Medical University partnership to encourage minorities to become primary care doctors working in underserved Cleveland neighborhoodscould become a national model, said Dr. Louis Sullivan, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services."
Hispanically Speaking News
April 24, 2012
"HHS Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius will address health care reform and tackle a first-of-its kind action plan to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care, a longstanding mission of the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA), when she speaks Friday, April 27 before Hispanic physicians during their national conference in Washington."
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
March 2012
"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."
Tags: Medical Students
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
March 2012
"Registration is now open for the 2012 Medical Education Futures Study (MEFS) conference, 'Beyond Flexner: Social Mission in Medical Education.'"
The State News
February 22, 2012
"The MSU College of Human Medicine is increasing efforts to recruit students from medically underserved areas with the addition of Alma College to its group of Michigan university partners in the early assurance program for admissions."
Tags: Medical School Admissions, Pipeline, Rural
Common Health
February 9, 2012
"Dr. Alden Landry practices emergency medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, but he’s more than just a doctor — he’s helping lead the movement to diversify medicine. He heads up projects on the issue at Beth Israel, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School."
Association of American Medical Colleges
February 1, 2012
"Achieving health equity requires reaching beyond the clinic and into communities. In this short video, the AAMC’s Diversity Policy and Programs division shines a spotlight on the social determinants of health and how they shape an individual’s opportunity for quality health and healthcare. The goal is to inspire changes that lead to the elimination of health disparities."
Tags: Social Mission
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
December 8, 2011
"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."
Tags: Pipeline
Indian Country Today Media Network
December 7, 2011
"The American Indian/Alaska Native population exceeds five million and has increased by 27 percent since the 2000 United States Census Bureau Report. Despite this positive population growth, there is an alarming inverse to this equation: the number of Native people applying to medical school and earning medical degrees is shrinking."
Tags: Workforce Shortage
Academic Medicine
December 2011
"This is a defining moment for health and health care in the United States, and medical schools and teaching hospitals have a critical role to play. The combined forces of health care reform, demographic shifts, continued economic woes, and the projected worsening of physician shortages portend major challenges for the health care enterprise in the near future. In this commentary, the author employs a diversity framework implemented by IBM and argues that this framework should be adapted to an academic medicine setting to meet the challenges to the health care enterprise."
Kaiser Health News
November 3, 2011
"Even as experts stress the need to provide more culturally competent care for the nation’s burgeoning Hispanic population, Congress is poised to reduce or eliminate some of the programs that fund training of minority students for careers in health care."
Tags: Medical Students
Georgia Health Sciences University
October 21, 2011
"Georgia Health Sciences University is helping eliminate health disparities by training students to mentor potential future health professionals in underserved areas."
Tags: Medical Students, Underserved
UA News
October 14, 2011
"Arizona students from disadvantaged backgrounds who aspire to health profession careers will be helped by a $2.2 million Health Careers Opportunity Program, or HCOP, grant."
Tags: Medical Students, Pipeline
Herald Palladium
October 10, 2011
"Blacks and Hispanics make up 25 percent of the U.S. population but less than 10 percent of the country's doctors, nurses and dentists."
Richmond Times-Dispatch
October 3, 2011
"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 St. Louis American
September 22, 2011
"Seven African-American students in the Class of 2015 started their training in August at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine."
Tags: Medical Students
Market Watch
September 22, 2011
"KeyBank Foundation has pledged $1 million to fund annual scholarships to minority students at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. This is the second $1 million gift that KeyBank Foundation has committed to support the KeyBank Minority Medical Student Fellowships at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine."
Tags: Medical Students
The Plain Dealer
September 21, 2011
"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."
Tags: Medical Students
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