'Behind every problem lies an opportunity': Meeting the challenge of diversity in medical schools

Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1240-1247

  Fischbach, Ruth L ^a,c   Hunt, Marion ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; FORECASTING; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; PREJUDICE; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033233215     PISSN: 15246094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.1.1999.8.1240     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. Becker H, Greer B, Hughes BC, Strauss A. Boys in white: Student culture in medical school. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1961.
2. Bowen WG, Bok D. The shape of the river: Long-term consequences of considering race in college and university admissions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.
3. Ludmerer, KM. Time to heal: American medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
4. Nickens IIW, Ready TP, Petersdorf RG. PROJECT 3000 BY 2000: Racial and ethnic diversity in U.S. medical schools. N Engl J Med 1994;331:472.
5. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 1978.
6. Cooper JA. The Bakke decision. J Med Educ 1978;53: 776.
7. Project 3000 by 2000 technical assistance manual: Guidelines for action. Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Colleges, 1992.
8. Bronner E. Admissions plunge at U. of California for 3 minorities. New York Times April 1, 1998:A1.
9. Noblc HB. Struggling to bolster minorities in medicine. New York Times September 29, 1998.
10. Association of American Medical College (AAMC). The fact book 1997. Washington, DC: AAMC, 1997.
11. Bickel J. Scenarios for success - Enhancing women physicians' professional advancement. West J Med 1995;162:166.
12. Traub J. The class of Prop. 209. The New York Times Magazine, May 2, 1999.
13. Harper G, Norris D, Woo D. Physician education in a diverse society: Listening to and learning from new voices. Pharos Spring 1995:39.
14. Proctor EK, Davis LE. The challenge of racial difference: Skills for clinical practice. Soc Work 1994;39:314.
15. Bach PB, Cramer LD, Warren JL, Begg CB. Racial differences in the treatment of early-stage lung cancer. N Engl J Med 1999;341:1198.
16. King TE. Racial disparity in rates of surgery for lung cancer. N Engl J Med 1999;341:1231.
17. Thomas SB, Curran JW. Tuskegee: From science to conspiracy to metaphor. Am J Med Sci 1999;317:1.
18. Kilborn PT. Filling special needs of minority patients. New York Times February 14, 1998:16.
19. Jones J. Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment - A tragedy of race and medicine. New York: Free Press, 1981.
20. Gamble VN. Americans and health care. Am J Public Health 1997;87:1773.
21. Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Minority students in medical education: Facts and figures, VIII. Washington, DC: AAMC, 1994.
22. Steinbrook R. Diversity in medicine. N Engl J Med 1996;334:1327.
23. Masters D. Contemporary issues in medical education: Teaching and learning cultural competence in medical school. Association of American Medical Colleges, Division of Medical Education 1998;1:1.
24. Mouton CP, Harris S, Rovi S, Solorzano P, Johnson MS. Barriers to black women's participation in cancer clinical trials. J Natl Med Assoc 1997;89:721.
25. Cohen JJ. Affirmative action for medical schools: It's right, it's needed, and it really works. Acad Phys Sci. 1997; March/April:3.
26. Davidson RC, Lewis EL. Affirmative action and other special consideration admissions at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. JAMA 1997: 278;1153.
27. Tesch BJ, Wood HM, Helwig AL, Nattinger AB. Promotion of women physicians in academic medicine: Glass ceiling or sticky floor? JAMA 1995;273:1022.
28. Carter A. Talking more - and more publicly - about affirmative action. Focus December 16, 1998:6.
29. Bickel J. Medical students' professional ethics: Defining the problems and developing resources. Acad Med 1991;66:726.
30. Mendelsohn KD, Nieman LZ, Isaacs K, Lee S, Levison SP. Sex and gender bias in anatomy and physical diagnosis text illustrations. JAMA 1994;272:1267.