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 …

In fiscal year 2006, the US Government abruptly and drastically reduced its funding for
programs to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of academic medicine, including …

Despite recent drastic cutbacks in federal funding for programs to diversify academic
medicine, many such programs survive and continue to set examples for others of how to …

This article describes the ingredients of successful programs for the development of minority
faculty in academic medicine. Although stung by recent cuts in federal funding, minority …

Medical schools must become more successful in training minority faculty. Minority faculty
development programs at schools of medicine must involve trainees from the undergraduate …

BACKGROUND: Although several studies have outlined the need for and benefits of
diversity in academia, the number of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in academic …

In 2004, the Association of American Medical Colleges defined underrepresented in
medicine as “racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical …

For the past 20 years, the percentage of the American population consisting of nonwhite
minorities has been steadily increasing. By 2050, these nonwhite minorities, taken together …

Rationale: Committed to its mission of conducting and supporting research that addresses
the health needs of all sectors of the nation's population, the Division of Lung Diseases …

The United States has a shortage of physicians from underrepresented minorities. Under-
representation of ethnic minority academic faculty is due to multiple factors, including an …