HEALTHCARE
Steps to Increase Diversity in Medical Workforce
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recent new report, based in part on case studies of the UCSF School of Medicine and Stanford University
School of Medicine, has determined five elements critical to increasing racial and ethnic diversity in medical schools and ultimately, the physician workforce. There have been overall increases in US medical school
racial and ethnic diversity from the 1960s through the early 2000s, according to the study’s analysis of medical school and demographic trends. However, Blacks, Latinos, American Indians and Alaska Natives, and Native Hawai- ians and Other Pacific Islanders remain underrepresented in medicine relative to their numbers in the US population, the study authors report. The issue is of critical importance because the nation
and California will be much more racially and ethnically diverse within the next 20 years, the authors emphasize. “Students also need family, social, and financial support
and life experiences that encourage them to apply to and enter medical school.”
“Diversity of the physician workforce bears directly on
people’s access to care, and the quality and outcomes of care, in addition to impacting future benefits of research to the health of diverse populations,” said report co-author Philip R. Lee, MD, UCSF chancellor emeritus and profes- sor of social medicine emeritus, UCSF School of Medicine. “Unless we act on multiple levels to reduce racial, ethnic and other disparities from kindergarten through college, we will not be able to continue to increase diversity in our medical schools. And we risk losing generations of young physicians to meet the health needs of an increasingly di- verse nation and state.” The analysis, titled “Diversity in US Medical Schools: Revitalizing Efforts to Increase Diversity in a Changing Context, 1960s-2000s”, was released by the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. The authors sought to understand the mix of public and
private interventions needed to increase diversity state- wide and nationally among medical school applicants,
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