"This report summarizes: (1) current data about diversity and distribution in the physician workforce; and (2) the status and impact of initiatives to enhance physician workforce diversity and access to care in underserved areas."
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Racial/Ethnic Diversity Reports
Association of American Medical Colleges
Spring 2010
"The Roadmap to Diversity: Integrating Holistic Review Practices into Medical School Admission Processes is designed to help admission deans, staff, and committees at medical schools develop and integrate holistic review practices into their student selection processes. This publication provides schools with a flexible, modular framework and accompanying tools for: aligning admission policies, processes, and criteria with institution-specific mission and goals, and establishing, sustaining, and reaping the benefits of medical student diversity (as defined by the school) in support of those missions and goals."
University of Albany Center for Health Workforce Studies
March 22, 2010
"The number of underrepresented minority (URM) physicians has not increased substantially over the past decade and remains far less than their corresponding proportion in the state's population. The study also found that URM physicians are more likely to practice in a primary care specialty and work in hospitals and clinics, and are also more likely to serve patients covered by Medicaid, and work in areas of the state that are federally designated as primary care shortage areas."
Center for Studying Health System Change
February 2010
"Despite broad consensus among the medical community about how physicians can help to address and, ultimately, reduce racial and ethnic disparities, physician adoption of several recommended practices to improve care for minority patients ranges from 7 percent reporting they have the capability to track patients' preferred language to 40 percent reporting they have received training in minority health issues to slightly more than half reporting their practices provide some interpreter services. The challenges physicians face in providing quality health care to all of their patients will keep mounting as the U.S. population continues to diversify and the minority population increases."
Government Accountability Office
November 2009
"Institutions that serve large proportions of low-income and minority students may receive funding under Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act. In fiscal year 2008, $667 million in grants were awarded to over 500 institutions. GAO was asked to determine (1) the characteristics of institutions eligible to receive grants under Titles III and V and characteristics of students served; (2) any challenges grantees face, and how they spent Title III and V funds to address these challenges; and (3) the extent to which the Department of Education (Education) monitors the financial and programmatic performance of grantees, and uses this information to target its technical assistance."
American Council on Education and EducationCounsel
October 2009
"Many 21st-century access and diversity issues face higher education leaders. The 21st-century challenge — and opportunity — facing higher education leaders centers directly on their need to develop effective policies that will advance their core education goals, and to do so in resource efficient ways. To succeed with respect to issues of access and diversity, this means that higher education leaders must do several things well."
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
September 2009
"This study, commissioned by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and carried out by leading researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, provides important insight into how much of a financial burden racial disparities are putting on our health care system and society at large."
Association of American Medical Colleges
September 2008
"In 1996, Californians approved Proposition 209, a ballot initiative codifying the elimination of race-conscious admissions at the state's public institutions. The impact of this ballot initiative on racial and ethnic diversity in medical schools has been difficult to determine, although previous research found dramatic reductions in the number of underrepresented minority students who applied, were accepted, and matriculated to California medical schools."
Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health University at Albany, SUNY
July 2008
"There is growing attention to the importance of diversity – especially racial/ethnic diversity – within the health workforce. However, some racial and ethnic minority groups are substantially underrepresented in the national physician workforce compared to their proportion in the general population. These underrepresented minorities (URMs) include Blacks/African-Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and American Indians/Alaska Natives."
Association of American Medical Colleges
August 2008
"This November, votes in three states could continue to erode the ability of public institutions, including many medical schools, to employ race- and gender-based hiring and admissions policies such as affirmative action."
Hispanic Business Magazine
August 2008
This ranking provides a brief profile of each of the ten schools, including the percent Hispanic graduate enrollment, percent M.D. degrees earned by Hispanics, percent full time Hispanic medical faculty, and a brief description of the University's commitment to diversity how they are achieving this mission.
