Andriole Dorothy A, McDougle Leon, Bardo Harold R, Lipscomb Wanda D, Metz Anneke M, Jeffe Donna B
Department of Surgery, Washington University.
Department of Family Medicine, The Ohio State University.
J Best Pract Health Prof Divers. 2015 Spring;8(1):1036-1048.
There is a critical need for enhanced health-professions workforce diversity to drive excellence and to improve access to quality care for vulnerable and underserved populations. In the current higher education environment, post-baccalaureate premedical programs with a special focus on diversity, sustained through consistent institutional funding, may be an effective institutional strategy to promote greater health professions workforce diversity, particularly physician-workforce diversity. In 2014, 71 of the 200 programs (36%) in a national post-baccalaureate premedical programs data base identified themselves as having a special focus on groups underrepresented in medicine and/or on economically or educationally disadvantaged students. Three post-baccalaureate premedical programs with this focus are described in detail and current and future challenges and opportunities for post-baccalaureate premedical programs are discussed.
迫切需要增强卫生专业人员队伍的多样性，以推动卓越发展，并改善为弱势群体和服务不足人群提供优质护理的机会。在当前的高等教育环境中，以多样性为特别重点、通过持续的机构资金支持的本科后医学预科项目，可能是促进卫生专业人员队伍更大程度多样化、尤其是医生队伍多样化的有效机构战略。2014年，在全国本科后医学预科项目数据库中的200个项目中，有71个（36%）表明自己特别关注医学领域代表性不足的群体和/或经济或教育上处于不利地位的学生。详细介绍了三个具有这一重点的本科后医学预科项目，并讨论了本科后医学预科项目当前和未来面临的挑战与机遇。
