Diversity in academic medicine no. 2: History of battles lost and won

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 499-503

  Strelnick, A Hal ^a   Lee Rey, Elizabeth ^a   Nivet, Marc C ^b   Soto Greene, L ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Josiah Macy Jr Foundation   (United States)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic diversity; Academic medicine; Affirmative action; Anti affirmative; Ethnic diversity; Health disparities; Pro affirmative; Racial diversity; Underrepresented minority

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; COURT; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH STATUS; IDEOLOGY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MINORITY GROUP; ORGANIZATION; POLITICS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; UNITED STATES;

CIVIL RIGHTS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; ORGANIZATIONS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57149084696     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20080     Document Type: Article

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