Projected Estimates of African American Medical Graduates of Closed Historically Black Medical Schools

JAMA Network Open

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2020, Pages

  Campbell, Kendall M ^a   Corral, Irma ^a   Infante Linares, Jhojana L ^a   Tumin, Dmitry ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUISIANA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MINORITY GROUP; PHYSICIAN; TENNESSEE; WORKFORCE; MEDICAL STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIANS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85089787051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25743805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.15220     Document Type: Article

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