JAMA Health Forum article examining the impact of efforts at a New York medical school.
Health equity initiatives in the U.S.
See how organizations across the country are working to center health equity and name racism as a barrier to equity in their COVID-19 responses.
The article, Debt-Free Medical Education A Tool for Health Care Workforce Diversity, looks at Weill Cornell Medicine s commitment to making medical education debt-free, which started in 2019, and the early results that it has produced.
To understand the impact of this program on the incoming Class 2024, Weill Cornell compared medical student applicants and matriculants in 2020 with those from the 4 previous years (2016-2019). In 2020 the first full admissions cycle in which the program was in place Weill Cornell Medical College s applications rose 11%. Among matriculating students we observed statistically significant increases in the percentage of students from groups underrepresented in medicine (from 20% to