ENROLLMENT NUMBERS SHOW SMALL INCREASE IN BLACK MEM ENTERING MED SCHOOL

摘要

In what has become an annual tradition, medical school first-year enrollment reached an all-time high of 20,343, up 3.1 percent from 2013, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Though that growth may not come as a surprise-first-year enrollment has been setting all-time records for several years in a row-the 2014 numbers did show an increase in black men enrolling in medical school. The number of men enrolling who identified as black or African American rose 3.1 percent with this entering class. Black men have been markedly underrepre-sented in medical school and in the physician workforce, and over the last 30 years that underrepresentation has actually grown worse.