What can medical schools do now to ensure a diverse clinician workforce?
Introduced in the wake of the civil rights movement in the US, affirmative action policies were intended to increase access to higher education for people from racial and ethnic minorities and redress longstanding injustices. Following the recent Supreme Court decision that “race conscious” admissions to universities and colleges are unconstitutional, many are concerned that medical schools may no longer prioritise their previous commitments to diversifying the US healthcare workforce.
Affirmative action policies have evolved from the early practice of setting quotas to reach enrolment goals for minority groups, to the more common current procedure of using race as one factor among others such as standardised test scores, grades, socioeconomic status, and extracurricular activities to inform decisions for acceptance to universities and medical schools. This helped provide the momentum needed to overcome long
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Wealthiest areas in Miami see 100% of residents receive at least one Covid vaccine dose while fewer than a THIRD of people in poorer black communities have had their shots
In wealthy Miami neighborhoods such as Fisher Island and Key Biscayne, 100% of residents have had at least one vaccine dose
Poorer neighborhoods with mostly black residents, such as Flamingo and Opa-locka, see fewer than one-third of people at least partially immunized
Overall, the bottom 10 ZIP codes only have 30% of adults vaccinated and the top 10 have 88% inoculated
Factors affecting vaccination rates include a lack of information, difficulty scheduling appointments on line and limited access to public transportation
Miami-Dade’s Black Communities Lag in Vaccination Rates
Vaccination rates were lower in communities where people lack access to vehicles and health insurance. Overall, vaccination rates were 30 percent lower in ZIP codes where more than a quarter of residents live in poverty.
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(TNS) - Roselle Monestime Noel, a 68-year-old home healthcare aide from North Miami, tried to get a coronavirus vaccine for two months.
It shouldn t have been so hard, Noel thought. Her age and job made her among the first group eligible under Florida s vaccine roll-out. But the odds were against her from the start. Information was limited, and mostly in English, which, even after 40 years in Miami, was still something of a barrier for the Haitian immigrant.
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