Patients need doctors who look like them – but can medicine diversify without affirmative action? columbian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from columbian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, concerns have arisen that a pathway into medicine may become much harder for students of color. Heightening the alarm: the medical field’s reckoning with longstanding health inequities. Black Americans represent 13% of the United States population, yet just 6% of physicians in the nation are Black. Increasing representation among doctors is one solution experts believe could help disrupt health inequities.
After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, concerns have arisen that a pathway into medicine may become much harder for students of color. Heightening the alarm: the medical field’s reckoning with longstanding health inequities. Black Americans represent 13% of the United States population, yet just 6% of physicians in the nation are Black. Increasing representation among doctors is one solution experts believe could help disrupt health inequities.
Dr. Starling Tolliver knew she wanted to become a doctor. Yet, as a Black girl growing up in Akron, Ohio, it was a dream that felt out of reach. She rarely saw doctors who looked like her. As a child, she experienced severe hair loss, and struggled to find a…
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