TY - JOUR
T1 - The Duke Minority Medical Student Summer Fellowship
T2 - One program's attempt to attract minority residents
AU - Brown, J. T.
AU - Wong, J. G.
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. This was presented at the Southern Regional Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 1, 1991. This work was supported in part by funds from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Marion-Merrill Dow Pharmaceutical Company, and by a Residency Training Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service. The authors wish to acknowledge the help of Dr. Joseph Greenfield, Jr., Dr. Doyle Graham, Tamara Coyne, and Leon Herndon, Jr., in implementing this program. Partial funding was provided by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Marion-Merrill Dow Pharmaceutical Company, and the Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service. Yvonne Byrd provided technical help in administrating all aspects of this program. Reprint requests: J. Trig Brown, MD, Box 3824, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.
Funding Information:
A number of programs have been designed to improve the representation of minority groups in medical careers. The largest selection of programs are sponsored by the Federal government mainly through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Table 2 offers a partiallisting of these programs. A comprehensive list- "NIH Programs of Special Interest to Minorities"is available from the Office of Minority Health, Division of Disadvantaged Assistance, Rockwall II Building, 5515 Security Lane, Suite 1102, Rockville, MD 20852.
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - Despite numerous Federal and private funding programs aimed at increasing the numbers of underrepresented minorities in medicine, the participation of minority groups in the medical profession remains low and shows little sign of improvement. With the goal of improving minority representation in our primary care residency program, the Minority Medical Student Summer Fellowship started in July 1990. The program's purpose is to give minority medical students positive exposure to primary care and attract them back for residency training. In this four-week elective, students participate in seminars with our primary care residents, see patients in a variety of clinics, and complete a project. Key implementation issues include support of the medicine chairman and dean, funding, and malpractice coverage for the students. Program evaluation from the first two students rated the clinic experiences higher than the seminar sessions and the independent project. Both students stated our fellowship made them more likely to train at this medical center should they enter a primary care program. Implications for other programs are listed.
AB - Despite numerous Federal and private funding programs aimed at increasing the numbers of underrepresented minorities in medicine, the participation of minority groups in the medical profession remains low and shows little sign of improvement. With the goal of improving minority representation in our primary care residency program, the Minority Medical Student Summer Fellowship started in July 1990. The program's purpose is to give minority medical students positive exposure to primary care and attract them back for residency training. In this four-week elective, students participate in seminars with our primary care residents, see patients in a variety of clinics, and complete a project. Key implementation issues include support of the medicine chairman and dean, funding, and malpractice coverage for the students. Program evaluation from the first two students rated the clinic experiences higher than the seminar sessions and the independent project. Both students stated our fellowship made them more likely to train at this medical center should they enter a primary care program. Implications for other programs are listed.
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U2 - 10.1097/00000441-199108000-00011
DO - 10.1097/00000441-199108000-00011
M3 - Article
C2 - 1897558
AN - SCOPUS:0026329695
SN - 0002-9629
VL - 302
SP - 124
EP - 128
JO - American Journal of the Medical Sciences
JF - American Journal of the Medical Sciences
IS - 2
ER -