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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

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The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

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The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. At that time, there were two predominantly Black medical schools in the U.S., Sullivan, former Secretary of the U.S.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

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Still University of Graduate Health Studies (ATSU) is a founding partner of the Academic Medicine Consortium of Arizona, a group of medical schools that collaborate to identify and nurture students toward academic medicine. The MCW Kern Institute held the Summit on Advancing Equity in the Learning Environment.

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How the “next phase” of LGBTQ+ student support is stirring at this Ivy League

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Efforts have ranged from providing LGBTQ+-inclusive housing to scholarships and sports teams. ” More from UB: Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences The growing need for LGBTQ+ healthcare The percentage of U.S. adults who self-identify as something other than heterosexual is 7.1%

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. It serves to recruit local talent for the graduate school pipeline to help diversify the workforce. Dreamline Pathways A.T.

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2023 Health Professions HEED Award Field Guide

Insight Into Diversity

In addition, the Graduate Health Professions scholarship (GPS) endowment, the school’s largest scholarship endowment, targets students from historically underrepresented groups. The school adopted an antiracism curriculum that continues to integrate DEI topics through the fourth year of training.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

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Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,