Balancing the Scales of Opportunity Ensuring Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Health Professions (1994) / Chapter Skim
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3 Lessons from Successful Programs
3 Lessons from Successful Programs
Pages 46-57
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In light of what has been learned from these programs and others over the past 20- years, researchers now understand many of the factors that help in attracting minority students and in retaining them in courses that lead toward health careers and, later, in assisting them at the health professions schools. Enough is now known to design and implement programs with a high likelihood of success.
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Cosponsored by 13ristol-Myers Squibb Company and the Commonwealth Fund, the Fellowships Program in Academic Medicine for Minority Students has allowed more than 200 minority medical students to spend up to 3 months working on research projects under the guidance of experienced biomedical researchers. The program's goal is to encourage more minority students to consider careers in academic medicine.
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Faculty Development The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Medical Faculty Development Program offers minority physicians 4-year, postdoctoral research fellowships. Each of the fellows must have demonstrated superior academic and clinical skills and be committed to a career in academic medicine.
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The Science Educational Enhancement Services Program in Pomona, California, uses faculty advisors, tutors, group study centers, student clubs, and academic excellence workshops to help minorities flourish in the science fields.
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School administrators argue that the strong science background they provide to premedical students is necessary to free them to confront the psychological, nonacademic pressures many minorities face in their first year of medical school. Xavier provides "a clear, unambiguous vision of the primary objective of the program the preparation of students to enter post-graduate studies leading to a career in the health professions" (Ready and Nickens, forthcoming)
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of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was designed to help promising, highly motivated minority (college) students gain admission to medical schools.
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In 1991, the University of California at San Francisco, in collaboration with the San Francisco Unified School District, developed a 4-year program to introduce a hands-on science curriculum to elementary school teachers in the local public schools entitled "City Science." The purpose of the program is to increase the involvement of the scientific community in the life of the elementary school child. Funded by the National Science Foundation, and with supplemental grants from the Genentech Foundation for Biomedical Sciences, the program each year trains 100 elementary school teachers of kindergarten through fifth grade.
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The program designers hope to create a "large team of lead teachers" who will help other local public school teachers improve the quality of the science taught in the schools. The University of California at Berkeley, in partnership with Oakland Technical High School, developed the MESA program, for Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement, to increase the number of minority students in science-related fields.
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The program receives funding from a combination of sources: federal and state governments, private foundations, and the medical schools involved in the program. The program identifies and recruits its participants early in their school years and provides structured academic, financial, and social support until the students have obtained a doctorate in one of the health care professions.
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CAHMCP is one of the sites of the Minority Medical Education Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 12 years of effort, CAHMCP claims that 98 percent of the participants who enter the program at the high school level or earlier earn their baccalaureate degree within 5 years after entering college.
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SUMMARY The efforts described above share many elements that can contribute to a successful program to increase the number of minority youth channeled into the health professions. At a 1992 forum hosted by the Kaiser Family Foundation on preparing minorities for the health professions, participants listed the ingredients without which a program could not succeed (Ready and Nickens, forthcoming)
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The AAMC "Project 3000 by 2000" envisions increasing the number of minority students in medical school through both short-term and long-term strategies. Medical schools, for example, would work with 4-year colleges to decompress the preclinical years, allowing students to take courses at both the undergraduate campus and the medical school during the senior year of college.
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