This qualitative study evaluates how racial diversity and inclusivity are promoted in online admissions material of Canadian medical schools. Key Points: Question: Do medical schools promote diversity as a core belief (instrumental value) or as an end goal (termin...
Because that law was passed in the late 1990s, the recent Supreme Court ruling didn’t change how the University of Washington medical school approaches the admissions process, Muzquiz says. However, after the high court's decision, the school decided to withhold race and ethni...
and Values Identified From Medical School Websites Targeted at Applicants Underrepresented in Medicine Response Theme Moral imperative code (terminal value): “As part of our ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, the MD Program … has introduced the Black Applicant Admissions Process....
Tradition has restricted the range of members on medical school admissions committees to medical school faculties. To test whether diversity among members of admissions committees may be as desirable as diversity among students, the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) sponsored a simulated ...
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that efforts to increase the diversity of medical school student bodies may be complicated by a desire to maintain high average GPA and MCAT scores. We propose that U.S. News revise its ranking methodology by incorporating a new diversity score into its student ...
Unfortunately, although the diversity-performance trade-off throughout medical education is well understood – and, in fact, perpetuated – its reality is consistently denied or ignored. ADVERTISEMENT A 2017 analysis of medical school admissions statistics showed that white applicants were much less ...
The authors note some limitations to their analysis. The data may have also captured the indirect effects of affirmative action on undergraduate admissions, public discussion of affirmative action bans may have affected medicalschoolenrollment even before the bans were implemented, some students may not...
Marc Hochberg, MD, MPH, MACP | Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine The authors fail to mention the long history of antisemitism in U.S. medical school admissions, faculty appointments and promotions in their "Viewpoint" on diversity, equity and...
As a medical student of color, I think that it's degrading to decrease the requirements across the board to have more ethnic minorities in medical school.[1] Affirmative action programs in medical school admissions or even in college admissions is a futile attempt to fix a problem decades too...
Prospective college students should honestly evaluate all facets of their identity in the admissions process. By Josh Moody | March 31, 2020, at 9:23 a.m. Save More Diversity in College and Why It Matters More Getty Images One reason colleges value diversity is different perspectives allow st...