NDLI: Shifting Patterns in the Premedical Education of African Americans and the Role of the HBCU

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Author	Butler, Barbara Marie
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	In today's highly competitive educational environment, becoming a physician requires that the students attend a high school that offers both a challenging curriculum and advanced course work. Ideally, the learning will occur in classroom environments with certified and nurturing teachers. Once accepted to college the students must survive two years of intense science coursework across the three disciplines of Biology, Chemistry and Physics and maintain a grade point average (GPA) of 3.5 or better. Still very few African American students reach these final steps on the challenging road to a career in medicine. This paper describes some of the historical and contemporary barriers African American physicians have faced as well as their underrepresentation as medical students including the differences in acceptance rates. The paper also discusses the impact of undergraduate science education on African American students’ medical school admissions. The importance of this review relates to the fact that there is currently an insufficient number of physicians and that African American physicians are underrepresented in that group.
Starting Page	541
Ending Page	556
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15591646
Journal	Journal of African American Men
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	19364741
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-06-30
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Negro physicians African American physicians Howard University Meharry Medical College Regional and Cultural Studies Sociology Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Gender Studies Cultural Studies

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