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Author: Alisha L. Davis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Health occupations students Languages : en Pages : 245
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Classified as a public health concern, the lack of underrepresented minorities (URMs) in the U.S. health care workforce is still prominent today, even with the increase of URM groups having reached historic numbers of representation within the United States. It is projected that by 2050, URM groups will replace Whites as the majority, yet Whites currently make up the majority of the health care workforce. URM health professionals are more likely to provide accessible and culturally competent health services, and practice in racially and ethnically diverse communities. This helps to eliminate health care disparities, and reduces inequities found in disadvantaged communities. In order to achieve the diversity needed in health care, a paradigm shift will be needed to necessitate this change. A primary area of focus needs to be directed at increasing the number of URMs in health professions programs, in order to ultimately increase the numbers in the health care workforce. One popular means of increasing URM representation are pipeline programs. They have been the most successful mechanism to date. Utilizing pipeline programs, coupled with understanding the lived experiences underrepresented minority students in health professions programs have is vital to creating environments that yield the best outcomes for these students. To examine this phenomenon, a phenomenological study was conducted to gain a better understanding of URM students who choose, enroll in, and persist in health professions programs. The study included seven URM students who have participated in a pipeline program and are currently enrolled in a college or university health professions program. These participants were interviewed to better understand how they reflect on their lived experiences and identify what experiences they believe accounted for their decision to enroll in a health professions program. Based on the participants' descriptions of their lived experiences, four themes and four subthemes emerged. Those themes include: access and participation, curriculum and quality teaching and learning, social and emotional development, and developing social capital. The themes capture the nature of the URM participants' lived experiences as they saw them and speaks to their experiences from academic and a socio-emotional views. The results shed some light on the experiences of URM students, their pathways to health professions programs, and the reasoning behind choosing health professions. These findings can provide guidance for those who are involved in health professions pipeline programs, university health professions programs, and high school programs, in order to create stronger learning environments for URM students. As these environments are strengthened, there is a greater potential towards increasing the overall pool of URM candidates in health professions programs, thereby, increasing the overall rate of URM health professionals who can ultimately work to reduce the inequalities found in disadvantaged communities.
Author: Alisha L. Davis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Health occupations students Languages : en Pages : 245
Book Description
Classified as a public health concern, the lack of underrepresented minorities (URMs) in the U.S. health care workforce is still prominent today, even with the increase of URM groups having reached historic numbers of representation within the United States. It is projected that by 2050, URM groups will replace Whites as the majority, yet Whites currently make up the majority of the health care workforce. URM health professionals are more likely to provide accessible and culturally competent health services, and practice in racially and ethnically diverse communities. This helps to eliminate health care disparities, and reduces inequities found in disadvantaged communities. In order to achieve the diversity needed in health care, a paradigm shift will be needed to necessitate this change. A primary area of focus needs to be directed at increasing the number of URMs in health professions programs, in order to ultimately increase the numbers in the health care workforce. One popular means of increasing URM representation are pipeline programs. They have been the most successful mechanism to date. Utilizing pipeline programs, coupled with understanding the lived experiences underrepresented minority students in health professions programs have is vital to creating environments that yield the best outcomes for these students. To examine this phenomenon, a phenomenological study was conducted to gain a better understanding of URM students who choose, enroll in, and persist in health professions programs. The study included seven URM students who have participated in a pipeline program and are currently enrolled in a college or university health professions program. These participants were interviewed to better understand how they reflect on their lived experiences and identify what experiences they believe accounted for their decision to enroll in a health professions program. Based on the participants' descriptions of their lived experiences, four themes and four subthemes emerged. Those themes include: access and participation, curriculum and quality teaching and learning, social and emotional development, and developing social capital. The themes capture the nature of the URM participants' lived experiences as they saw them and speaks to their experiences from academic and a socio-emotional views. The results shed some light on the experiences of URM students, their pathways to health professions programs, and the reasoning behind choosing health professions. These findings can provide guidance for those who are involved in health professions pipeline programs, university health professions programs, and high school programs, in order to create stronger learning environments for URM students. As these environments are strengthened, there is a greater potential towards increasing the overall pool of URM candidates in health professions programs, thereby, increasing the overall rate of URM health professionals who can ultimately work to reduce the inequalities found in disadvantaged communities.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309050782 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 99
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The underrepresentation of minorities in health and other professions has long cast a shadow over our nation's efforts to develop a more representative and productive society. Many programs have been developed to enlarge the presence of minorities in health careers, but these efforts have been unable to develop the infrastructure and momentum needed to produce and sustain an adequate number of minority professionals among the ranks of clinicians, researchers, and teachers. This book looks at the historical significance of this underrepresentation, presents data that define the problem, and identifies underlying factors that contribute to the failure to achieve fairness in opportunity. The volume examines programs that have made successful efforts to decrease underrepresentation and sets forth an action and research agenda for further enhancing the numbers of minorities in the health professions.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309159687 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 229
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In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving national goals, we must invest in research, encourage innovation, and grow a strong and talented science and technology workforce. Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation explores the role of diversity in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce and its value in keeping America innovative and competitive. According to the book, the U.S. labor market is projected to grow faster in science and engineering than in any other sector in the coming years, making minority participation in STEM education at all levels a national priority. Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation analyzes the rate of change and the challenges the nation currently faces in developing a strong and diverse workforce. Although minorities are the fastest growing segment of the population, they are underrepresented in the fields of science and engineering. Historically, there has been a strong connection between increasing educational attainment in the United States and the growth in and global leadership of the economy. Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation suggests that the federal government, industry, and post-secondary institutions work collaboratively with K-12 schools and school systems to increase minority access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical training. The book also identifies best practices and offers a comprehensive road map for increasing involvement of underrepresented minorities and improving the quality of their education. It offers recommendations that focus on academic and social support, institutional roles, teacher preparation, affordability and program development.
Author: LoShay A. Willis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Allied health personnel Languages : en Pages : 232
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Despite a more diverse U.S. population, racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the U.S. healthcare professions. Further, increasing the enrollment of Underrepresented Minority (URM) students in health professions is a challenging and urgent issue. The literature had not explored a comparison of racial and ethnic groups’ exposure to allied health professions. This current study investigated URM and non-URMs’ exposure to and knowledge of allied health fields; in order to determine, whether some of the groups are getting exposed differentially to different methods, and to identify the resources necessary to expose and provide knowledge of allied health professions to recruit students into allied health programs. The researcher conducted a quantitative study with African American (n = 21), Caucasian (n = 137), and Hispanic (n = 67) allied health students. Participants completed an Exposure to Allied Health Fields survey about their exposure to, and knowledge of allied health fields. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) and post hoc tests were conducted to analyze the differences between the three groups. Results revealed statistically significant differences between the three groups with respect to exposure to allied health fields; however, there was no statistically significant difference of knowledge of allied health fields between the three groups. Additionally, results showed that African American and Hispanic students were less exposed to health careers courses and social media used to promote allied health careers. Future research needs to identify other significant factors for URM not pursuing allied health professions.
Author: Lena L. Robinson-Grafton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 209
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The lack of diversity among current licensed physicians is mirrored in the race/ethnicity of current medical students across the nation. In 2017-2018, there were a total of 89,904 medical students enrolled in U.S. medical schools, with 7% of those medical students who identified as African American (AAMC, 2019). This narrative qualitative study examined the lived experiences of three African American pre-medical and three African American medical students to understand their challenges and supports while pursuing a medical degree. Through semi-structured interviews, the study explored the academic, professional and social experiences that influenced their persistence from undergraduate through medical school completion. This study employed Critical Race Theory (CRT) to identify and address how racism, oppression, and power impact the lives of these African American students. Findings of the research indicated that African American underrepresented minorities in medicine experienced similar encounters of racism and oppression at the "Three Levels of Racism" (Jones, 2000), institutional racism, personally mediated racism and internalized racism, throughout their journey to become a doctor. Recommendations to disrupt all forms of racism, allowing students to gain a sense of belonging and academic persistence are related to increasing the African American physician workforce to increase URM mentorship; academic, social and mental health wrap around services; financial support; institutional leaders committed to equity and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) principles; and creating meaningful URM pipeline programs starting at the elementary school level
Author: Pedro J. Lecca Publisher: ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 112
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This book introduces the reader to the scope and extent of minority underrepresentation in the health professions. Underrepresented minority groups include Afro-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans. Drs. Lecca and Watts have cited a number of studies and papers describing trends in minority enrollment in health profession institutions. Among the areas which the authors focus on are the recruitment and admissions process which they note need intensive reexamination by higher education administrators and educators. They describe examples of academic enrichment and retention programs. They suggest that minority retention and the ultimate goal, increase in graduation, will only be achieved if financial and other forms of institutional and private/public support are forthcoming. The book concludes with some 'modest' recommendations.
Author: William A. Smith Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 079148937X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 335
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"Why is it that as we enter the twenty-first century, the nation's predominantly white colleges and universities continue to be settings where people of color feel unwelcome and marginalized? The contributors to this volume dissect a variety of structural and attitudinal factors that are prevalent in the higher education community, organizational constructs and value orientations which seem to hark more to the past than to the future. They comment on the political, social, and economic factors that have shaped academic culture, and buttressed its quietly efficient maintenance of racially discriminatory practices. "The American system of higher education is often regarded as the best in the world. Smith, Altbach, and Lomotey have edited a volume that implicitly asks how much better still it could be if it embraced people of color and provided them with a supportive and nurturing environment, one which encouraged them to reach their fullest creative and intellectual potential. Indeed, this will probably be the most significant challenge that the academy faces in the twenty-first century." — William B. Harvey, Vice President and Director, Office of Minorities in Higher Education American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309166616 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 429
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The United States is rapidly transforming into one of the most racially and ethnically diverse nations in the world. Groups commonly referred to as minorities-including Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and Alaska Natives-are the fastest growing segments of the population and emerging as the nation's majority. Despite the rapid growth of racial and ethnic minority groups, their representation among the nation's health professionals has grown only modestly in the past 25 years. This alarming disparity has prompted the recent creation of initiatives to increase diversity in health professions. In the Nation's Compelling Interest considers the benefits of greater racial and ethnic diversity, and identifies institutional and policy-level mechanisms to garner broad support among health professions leaders, community members, and other key stakeholders to implement these strategies. Assessing the potential benefits of greater racial and ethnic diversity among health professionals will improve the access to and quality of healthcare for all Americans.
Author: John Paul (J.P.) Sánchez Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030942236 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 144
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This book increases undergraduate and graduate students' awareness of, interest in, and preparedness for academic health professions careers. It includes invaluable chapters that emphasize the importance of developing self-efficacy, knowledge, skills, and experiences not just for their resume but to build a foundation to strengthen students for the rest of their professional careers. The book provides the reader with basic information, tools, and a competitive edge through inspirational narratives from diverse graduate students and faculty, self-assessment exercises, and case-based discussion. These invaluable, authentic narratives will inspire, hearten, and encourage readers to pursue their health professional and academic careers confidently. Additionally, chapters outline the necessary tools for getting the most out of one's educational, research, service and leadership activities and optimize their competitiveness for graduate school and as pre-faculty. Unique, timely, and comprehensive, Health Professions and Academia provides undergraduate and graduate students with content to develop as competitive applicants to health-related graduate school and build a foundation from which they can establish successful careers in academia as future faculty, senior administrative leaders, and change agents.
Author: Alisha L. Davis
Author: Alisha L. Davis
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: LoShay A. Willis
Author: Lena L. Robinson-Grafton
Author: Pedro J. Lecca
Author: William A. Smith
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: Edward J. James
Author: John Paul (J.P.) Sánchez