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J Allied Health. 2021 Fall;50(3):e91-e97.
To meet the healthcare needs of diverse populations, universities must implement strategies to recruit health professions students who are racially, ethnically, and culturally similar to the communities they serve. One strategy to increase diversity in the health professions is to implement a holistic admissions process. Inspired by the successful use of holistic admission practices in the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and physician assistant studies programs implemented holistic reviews in their admissions processes. Although each program developed a different strategy, all were successful in increasing the percentage of diverse students in their respective programs. This paper describes the holistic admissions practices and outcomes and other lessons learned in the effort to achieve our goal of greater student diversity. These lessons included the need to increase the total number of applicants using centralized application services, develop mentoring programs to assist applicants with navigating the requirements for our programs and the admissions process, and provide more scholarship opportunities.
为了满足不同人群的医疗保健需求，大学必须实施策略来招募在种族、民族和文化上与他们所服务的社区相似的卫生专业学生。增加卫生专业多样性的一种策略是实施整体招生流程。受南卡罗来纳医科大学医学院成功使用整体招生实践的启发，职业治疗、物理治疗和医师助理研究项目在其招生流程中实施了整体评估。尽管每个项目都制定了不同的策略，但所有项目都成功地提高了各自项目中多元化学生的比例。本文描述了整体招生实践和结果以及其他经验教训，这些经验教训是为了实现我们增加学生多样性的目标而努力的结果。这些经验教训包括需要使用集中申请服务来增加申请人的总数，制定指导计划以帮助申请人了解我们项目和招生流程的要求，并提供更多奖学金机会。
