Improving underrepresented minority in medicine representation in medical school

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 203-208

  Campbell, Kendall M ^a,b,c   Brownstein, Naomi C ^a,b,c   Livingston, Helen ^a,b,c   Rodríguez, José E ^a,b,c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black race; Latino; Medical education; Native American; Pipeline programs

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLORIDA; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LICENSING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICINE; PIPELINE; STUDENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MINORITY GROUP; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COLLEGE ADMISSION TEST; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 85044944970     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: 15418243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000792     Document Type: Article

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