Can medicine diversify without affirmative action? : compare

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.

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