Conclusions We in academic medicine have worked hard for over 100 years to fulfill our
stated tripartite mission of research, education, and clinical care. For academic medicine …

Today, most agree that the health care system in the United States is in need of reform and
that existing health disparities have huge implications for both that system and society as a …

It is worthwhile to consider the basis for success in achieving diversity in MD programs and
the failure to do so in PhD programs and to ask what can be done to remedy the situation …

Background In 2002, the APM Board of Directors formed the APM Diversity Task Force (now
the APM Diversity Committee), headed by Donald E. Wesson, MD, Chair of the Department …

The Association of Professors of Medicine (APM) is committed to ensuring that departments
of internal medicine fulfill their tripartite mission of educating the next generation of …

For 30 years, the many diversity-related health sciences programs targeting the University of
Pittsburgh undergraduate campus, school of medicine, schools of the health sciences …

Addressing the challenge of diversity to leadership in medicine and the health sciences is a
formidable challenge in itself. The State University of New York (SUNY) system has a …

Since efforts to increase the diversity of academic medicine began shortly after the Civil War,
the efforts have been characterized by a ceaseless struggle of old and new programs to …

The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the health and health
care of all Americans. Since its inception, the Foundation has supported efforts to improve …

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 …