Entry of Black and Other Minority Students into U.S. Medical Schools

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BLACKS and other minorities continue to be underrepresented in medical schools in the United States. In 1980, 11.7 per cent of the population was classified as black, but blacks accounted for only 6.6 per cent of the total entering medical-school class, 2.6 per cent of practicing physicians,1 and 1.7 per cent of medical-school faculty.2 The problem of underrepresentation is in fact more severe than these national statistics indicate, since a third of the black students and a quarter of the black faculty members were concentrated in three predominantly black medical schools.In 1970 the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), . . .

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