| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The right thing to do, the smart thing to do/ Brian D. Smedley ... [et al.]. |
| Reminder of title: |
enhancing diversity in the health professions : summary of the Symposium on Diversity in Health Professions in honor of Herbert W. Nickens, M.D. / |
| other author: |
Nickens, Herbert W. |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. :National Academy Press : : c2001., |
| Description: |
x, 366 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
The Right thing to do, the smart thing to do: enhancing diversity in the health professions -- The Role of diversity in the training of health professionals -- Increasing racial and ethnic diversity among physicians: an intervention to address health disparities -- Current legal status of affirmative action programs in higher education -- College admission policies and the educational pipeline: implications for medical and health professions -- Toward diverse student representation and higher achievement in higher levels of the American educational meritocracy -- Trends in underrepresented minority participation in health professions schools -- Inequality in teaching and schooling: how opportunity is rationed to students of color in America -- Lost opportunities: the difficult journey to higher education for underrepresented minority students -- Systemic reform and minority student high achievement -- Sustaining minorities in prehealth advising programs -- Rethinking the admissions process: evaluation techniques that promote inclusiveness in admissions decisions -- How do we retain minority health professions students? |
| Subject: |
Diversity in the workplace - Congresses. - United States - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=87196An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0309509955 (electronic bk.) |