The Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do: Enhancing Diversity in the Health Professions -- Summary of the Symposium on Diversity in Health Professions in Honor of Herbert W. Nickens, M.D. - Softcover

Association Of Academic Health Centers; Evans, Clyde H.; Association Of American Medical Colleges; Colburn, Lois; Institute Of Medicine; Stith, Adrienne Y.; Smedley, Brian D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309076145 ISBN 13: 9780309076142

Verlag: National Academies Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

The Symposium on Diversity in the Health Professions in Honor of Herbert W. Nickens, M.D., was convened in March 2001 to provide a forum for health policymakers, health professions educators, education policymakers, researchers, and others to address three significant and contradictory challenges: the continued under-representation of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans in health professions; the growth of these populations in the United States and subsequent pressure to address their health care needs; and the recent policy, legislative, and legal challenges to affirmative action that may limit access for underrepresented minority students to health professions training. The symposium summary along with a collection of papers presented are to help stimulate further discussion and action toward addressing these challenges. The Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do: Enhancing Diversity in Health Professions illustrates how the health care industry and health care professions are fighting to retain the public's confidence so that the U.S. health care system can continue to be the world's best.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• The Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do: Enhancing Diversity in the Health Professions
• The Role of Diversity in the Training Of Health Professionals
• Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Physicians: An Intervention to Address Health Disparities?
• Current Legal Status of Affirmative Action Programs in Higher Education
• College Admission Policies and the Educational Pipeline: Implications for Medical and Health Professions*
• Toward Diverse Student Representation and Higher Achievement in Higher Levels American Educational Meritocracy
• Trends in Underrepresented Minority Participation in Health Professions Schools*
• Inequality in Teaching and Schooling: How Opportunity Is Rationed to Students of Color in America
• Lost Opportunities: The Difficult Journey to Higher Education for Underrepresented Minority Students
• Systemic Reform and Minority Student High Achievement
• Sustaining Minorities in Prehealth Advising Programs: Challenges and Strategies for Success
• Rethinking the Admissions Process: Evaluation Techniques That Promote Inclusiveness in Admissions Decisions
• How Do We Retain Minority Health Professions Students?
• Addendum

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brian D. Smedley and Adrienne Y. Stith, Institute of Medicine; Lois Colburn, Association of American Medical Colleges; Clyde H. Evans, Association of Academic Health Centers

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: National Academies Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0309076145
• ISBN 13: 9780309076142
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376
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