Current challenges to affirmative action policies are cause for concern for medical schools
that employ holistic admissions processes, which consider an applicant's race, ethnicity …

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 …

Academic Medicine, Vol. 94, No. 4/April 2019 454 chance of admission would have a 35%
chance if white, 75% if Hispanic, and 95% if African American with the same qualifications. 7 …

Medical schools implemented holistic review more than a decade ago, which led to more
deliberate consideration and inclusion of applicants historically underrepresented in …

Abstract The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in 2007 developed the
Holistic Review Framework for medical school admissions to increase mission-aligned …

Now that the USSupreme Court has struck down raceconscious admissions in higher
education, institutions are looking to California where the practice has been banned in …

Problem Racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes remain pervasive in the US health
care system. Increasing the diversity of the physician workforce is recognized as an …

Medical education has reached a critical juncture—the structural racism that has permeated
the fabric of its systems and institutions for centuries can no longer be ignored. The …

In accordance with the call from multiple academic medicine bodies and professional
medical societies, the physician assistant studies program at a small northeastern university …

Importance Despite decades-long calls for increasing racial and ethnic diversity, the medical
profession continues to exclude members of Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx …