Background Racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the health professions.
Affirmative action and educational pipeline programs play a vital role in increasing the …

Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the health care workforce is essential for the
adequate provision of culturally competent care to our nation's burgeoning minority …

Keeping Our Promise After a recommitment to racial equity by academic medical centers,
some institutions are celebrating recruiting their most diverse intern class to date. It will be …

Importance With increasing efforts to create a diverse physician workforce that is reflective of
the demographic characteristics of the US population, it remains unclear whether progress …

California is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states in the United States. In fact,
racial and ethnic minorities are now the majority in California, with the proportion of Latinos …

Despite major advances and technological improvements in public health and medicine,
health disparities persist by race and ethnicity, income and educational attainment, and in …

Abstract The Medical University of South Carolina launched a systematic plan to infuse
diversity among its students, resident physicians, and faculty in 2002. The dean and …

Background The diversification of medical school student and faculty bodies via race-
conscious affirmative action policy is a societal and legal option for the US Supreme Court …

A racially and ethnically diverse health care workforce remains a distant goal, the attainment
of which is contingent on the inclusivity of the national medical student body. We examined …

Importance Diversity is an essential element of an effective health care system. A key to
developing a diverse workforce is establishing a diverse student population in health …