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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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Program Encourages Regional Native American Students to Pursue Health Sciences

Insight Into Diversity

The University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School Duluth Campus will increase access to biomedical science careers for Native American students in the region with the new Gateways to Medicine and Research Master of Science degree program. There needs to be more representation of Native Americans in clinics and in academic medicine.

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month.

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$100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College

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” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. Stryker is a businesswoman and member of Harvard Medical School’s board of fellows, and Johnston is the head of a money management firm. “We are invigorated and inspired by this incredible act of generosity.”

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Still University of Graduate Health Studies (ATSU) is a founding partner of the Academic Medicine Consortium of Arizona, a group of medical schools that collaborate to identify and nurture students toward academic medicine. Engaging Middle Schoolers in Health Professions — Michigan Medicine University of Michigan Medical School.

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Russia in campaign for Africans despite student frontline deaths

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It is well known that Russian medical schools are the best in the world. It also says the degrees are recognised by the World Health Organisation, offered by universities with 100 years of history, while boasting that some 353,000 foreign students from 200 countries around the world were studying in the country.

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International education – doing the right thing for students and the world

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And the first Chinese student to formally graduate in Britain was Dr. Wong Fun (Huang Kuan) who attended Edinburgh University Medical School from 1850 to 1855, returning to China to practise as a surgeon. In my own time as a student, I read History at The University of Aberdeen. The world’s universities are also changing.