Diversity in Medical Schools —Need for a New Bold Approach

In this issue of JAMA, Montgomery Rice details the wrenching history of Black men and women and medical education and the many challenges still thwarting the long-standing goal of increasing diversity in US medical schools. From her purview as dean at Morehouse School of Medicine, she offers unique insights and specifically illuminates the failure to increase the enrollment of Black medical students, especially at new medical schools, many of which have explicitly adopted diversity as a foundational pillar of contemporary mission statements. As a consequence, the medical schools serving historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) carry an outsize role in training Black medical students, but true diversity continues to lag. A different model is needed to fully address diversity in medicine.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research