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Article: White Coats, White Faces: Checking the Pulse of Blacks in Medical School Admissions
- Article from:
- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Over the past five years there has been a 16 percent increase in the number of blacks who applied to U.S. medical schools. But despite a pressing need for more black physicians, both the number of black students accepted to medical school and the number who enrolled have dropped over the past five years.
Black enrollments in medical school remain significantly below the levels achieved a decade ago.
Most commentators in the field of medicine in the United States are of the view that the small number of black and other minority physicians and other health service professionals is a fundamental cause of the persistent racial disparities in the health of Americans. Other income and cultural ...