Improving Diversity in the Health Professions
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Promoting Diversity in the Health Professions
In 1991, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) launched a national campaign to enroll 3,000 underrepresented minority students in medical school by the year 2000. (The AAMC defined underrepresented minorities as blacks, Mexican Americans, mainland Puerto Ricans, and Native Americans, which includes American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.*) The initiative, named Pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: North Carolina Medical Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0029-2559
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.77.2.137