Does anticipated future racial discrimination undermine African-American adolescents’ academic motivation and performance? Do face-to-face experiences with racial discrimination at school undermine African-American adolescents’ academic functioning? Does African-American ethnic identity buffer these relations? This paper addresses these questions using two waves of data from a longitudinal stud...

BACKGROUND The relative ease of movement of physicians across the Canada/US border has led to what is sometimes referred to as a 'brain drain' and previous analysis estimated that the equivalent of two graduating classes from Canadian medical schools were leaving to practice in the US each year. Both countries fill gaps in physician supply with international medical graduates (IMGs) so the move...

Medical educators and public health experts have been calling on medical schools to enhance their teaching of population-based medicine for the greater part of the past decade. In June 1998, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) emphasized the importance of integrating a population health perspective within medical school curricula with its publication of Report II of the Medical ...

Two of the most studied psychosocial variables in relation to HIV are behavioral adaptation and perceived discrimination. The main objective of this study was to analyze whether behavioral adaptation and perceived discrimination can predict risky behaviors for HIV infection depending on cultural and gender differences. The sample was composed of 815 adolescents aged between 14 and 19 years old ...

This study examines how strength of ethnic identity, multiethnic identity, and other indicators of biculturalism relate to the drug use norms of urban American Indian middle school students. The article distinguishes categories of norms that may affect drug use. Regression analysis of self-reports by 434 American Indian seventh graders attending middle schools in a large southwestern U.S. city ...

In spite of best efforts by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the American Medical Association (AMA), and other national groups, entering medical students remain a relatively homogeneous group, with many backgrounds underrepresented. Although the combined percentage of people in the US from African American, Native American, and Hispanic backgrounds is 31 percent [1], only ro...

Weinberg • Special communication M educational debt can be a daunting task for a young physician in the United States. Tuition continues to rise at public and private schools across the country. Higher tuition typically necessitates increased borrowing. In the 2002 Medical School Graduation Questionnaire: All School[s] Report, the Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the mean d...

Rogers • Editorial T osteopathic medical profession is in the midst of unprecedented growth. By way of perspective, when the American Osteopathic Association’s editor in chief, Gilbert E. D’Alonzo, Jr, DO, JAOA Associate Editor Michael M. Patterson, PhD, and I were new to the profession, the nation had only a handful of osteopathic medical colleges, and JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopat...

This article is the third in a series of discussions on the major activities of the American Osteopathic Association's Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA), which is recognized by the US Secretary of Education as the only accrediting agency for predoctoral osteopathic medical education in the United States. The 2008 article outlined the process that an educational institution ...

Public opinion surveys indicate that the local each class is less than 35 percent and all property property tax is the least popular of all taxes paid within each class is treated equally. The constiby Americans, yet in almost every state such a tution also establishes a State Board of Equaltax is levied for the support of local government ization "to examine the various county assessand/or pub...