Minority medical student recruitment

Duscusses Minority Recruitment

The Student Government President's Select Commission on Race Relations held ·its second open hearing Wednesday evening in Reynolda Hall. 'Ibpics discussed included minority recruitment for faculty, administration and students and improvements in intemacial student relations. You Be CbiiJin' Sam Gnell'lllllld Commission member Anthony Chavis opened the hearing by introducing Charles Richman, pro...

Minority recruitment and participation in health research.

Minority recruitment in hereditary breast cancer research.

Although recruitment of ethnic and racial minorities in medical research has been evaluated in several studies, much less is known about the methods used to recruit these populations to participate in cancer genetics research. This report reviews the resources that have been used to identify and recruit ethnic and racial minorities to participate in hereditary breast cancer research. Overall, h...

Improving Underrepresented Minority Student Persistence in STEM

Members of the Joint Working Group on Improving Underrepresented Minorities (URMs) Persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)-convened by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute-review current data and propose deliberation about why the academic "pathways" leak more for URM than white or Asian STEM students. They su...

Medical students’ learning orientation regarding interracial interactions affects preparedness to care for minority patients: a report from Medical Student CHANGES

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of evidence on how to train medical students to provide equitable, high quality care to racial and ethnic minority patients. We test the hypothesis that medical schools' ability to foster a learning orientation toward interracial interactions (i.e., that students can improve their ability to successfully interact with people of another race and learn from their mis...