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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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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. It serves to recruit local talent for the graduate school pipeline to help diversify the workforce. Dreamline Pathways A.T.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This year, it launched a new center and program to address the acute need for culturally diverse and responsive health professionals: the Health Professions Center and its signature program, the Martin Delany-Pan African Studies Pathway to Medical School Program. . to offer scholarships to DACA students.

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2023 Health Professions HEED Award Field Guide

Insight Into Diversity

In addition, the Graduate Health Professions scholarship (GPS) endowment, the school’s largest scholarship endowment, targets students from historically underrepresented groups. The school adopted an antiracism curriculum that continues to integrate DEI topics through the fourth year of training.

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What Higher Education Can Learn from a Public Charity Hospital

Inside Higher Ed

” In her 2022 study of the toll of structural racism and prejudice on African Americans’ physical and mental health, Linda Villarosa, a former executive editor at Essence magazine and a contributor on race, health, and inequality to The New York Times Magazine , shows that racial disparities in life expectancy cut across class lines.

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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.