McGlinn S, Jackson E W, Bardo H R
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale 62901-4323, USA.
Acad Med. 1999 Apr;74(4):380-2. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199904000-00030.
Between 1972 and 1998, the state and federally funded Medical/Dental Education Preparatory Program (MEDPREP) at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine served approximately 900 qualified minority and disadvantaged students, in an effort to increase the number of underrepresented-minority (URM) students accepted into and retained in health professions schools. To help students improve their application credentials, this post-baccalaureate program establishes high expectations for student progress, designs individual curricula, offers extensive academic and personal counseling, has its own teaching faculty, and operates in a specially equipped, designated facility. This supportive educational environment has demonstrated success. By 1998 over 500 MEDPREP students had been accepted into medical or other health professions schools, and 86% of them had graduated or were scheduled to graduate. And while the number of new URM entrants to medical schools declined nationwide from 1995 to 1997, 70 URM students from MEDPREP matriculated to 28 different allopathic medical schools, eight entered three different osteopathic medical schools, and two entered dental schools. Recent data indicate that the score changes of Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) repeaters who were MEDPREP students were larger than those of all MCAT repeaters reported by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). In fact, the MEDPREP repeaters' score changes were two to nearly six times greater than the overall changes reported by the AAMC. These gains suggest that a carefully designed, long-term post-baccalaureate intervention such as MEDPREP can increase the pool of qualified URM and disadvantaged students accepted into and retained in health professions schools.
1972年至1998年间，南伊利诺伊大学医学院由州政府和联邦政府资助的医学/牙科教育预备项目（MEDPREP）为大约900名合格的少数族裔和弱势学生提供服务，旨在增加被健康职业院校录取并留校的少数族裔（URM）学生数量。为帮助学生提升申请资质，这个学士学位后项目对学生进步设定了很高的期望，设计个性化课程，提供广泛的学业和个人咨询，拥有自己的教师队伍，并在一个配备特殊设备的指定场所开展教学。这种支持性的教育环境已证明取得了成功。到1998年，已有500多名MEDPREP学生被医学院或其他健康职业院校录取，其中86%已经毕业或计划毕业。虽然1995年至1997年全国范围内进入医学院的新URM学生数量有所下降，但来自MEDPREP的70名URM学生被28所不同的全科医学院录取，8人进入3所不同的骨科医学院，2人进入牙科学院。最近的数据表明，作为MEDPREP学生的医学院入学考试（MCAT）重考者的分数变化比美国医学院协会（AAMC）报告的所有MCAT重考者的分数变化更大。事实上，MEDPREP重考者的分数变化比AAMC报告的总体变化大两到近六倍。这些成绩表明，像MEDPREP这样精心设计的长期学士学位后干预措施可以增加被健康职业院校录取并留校的合格URM和弱势学生的数量。
