Insider Medical Admissions: Medicine's Diversity Problem

Monday, February 22, 2016

Medicine's Diversity Problem

Here's a recent article from Emergency Medicine News about Dr. Alden Landry who started the Tour for Diversity in Medicine, a project to encourage minority students to become health care providers.

It's worth exploring the AAMC's Practice Specialty by Race and Ethnicity table to better understand the lack of diversity in each and all medical fields.

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Years of candidate selection at Harvard taught me what characteristics comprise a desirable applicant and how even bright candidates make mistakes that undermine their admissions success. I am a practicing Emergency Physician with nine years of experience training medical students, residents and fellows. I won three teaching and mentorship awards while at Harvard. Please see Insider Medical Admissions for the full array of personalized services I offer to clients applying to medical school, residency, fellowship and post baccalaureate programs.

Dr. Finkel thanks David Presser, MD, MPH for his contributions to the content of her blog entries. Dr. Presser is a practicing Emergency Physician who has written several primers for applicants to medical school and Emergency Medicine residency. Dr. Presser is a graduate of Stanford University, UCSF Medical School, the UCLA/Olive View-UCLA Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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