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4 Exploring the Challenges and Barriers for Black Men Along the Educational Trajectory
Pages 23-32

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... (Holden) • Community colleges are an underused resource; these schools have students that can be used to build the pool of Black men and students of color in medicine and can serve as a hub for community collaboration to strengthen the medical education pipeline and to support students in the pipeline.
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From page 24...
... 1 Holden is president and chief executive officer of Mentoring in Medicine, emergency department physician and residency site director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Montefiore Medical Center, and associate professor of clinical emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. 2 Lanier is director of multicultural affairs and community engagement at the Milwaukee Area Technical College.
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From page 25...
... Mentoring in Medicine offers schoolbased programs, which provide a daily elective class in low-resource inner city schools for students beginning in the second grade, and outof-school camps that occur throughout the calendar year, which include virtual programming to reach students across the country. For college and postbaccalaureate students, Mentoring in Medicine offers programs with clinical exposure, internships, and seminars.
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From page 26...
... To illustrate the potential of community colleges and describe the application of some of the Men of Color Initiative strategies, Lanier discussed a mental health awareness day hosted by MATC that brought together stakeholders including religious organizations, local health systems and health services agencies, local law firms, and advocacy organizations. He remarked, It was a deep community collaborative to take the messages [of ac ademia]
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From page 27...
... First, he emphasized the need for programs to appeal to students' interest in STEM careers to start earlier in the educational pipeline, and suggested targeting middle school. He commented that the focus on identifying talented STEM students in undergraduate programs is an outlier compared with other disciplines, saying Talent begins at [8, 9, 10, or 11 years old]
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From page 28...
... Second, Britt highlighted the need to "generate specific action items, not just talk about things that we all know." Examples of specific actions he listed include summer camps, medicine-themed fairs (akin to science fairs) , and "creative systems of magnet schools." Third, he emphasized the need to cultivate a culture of financial stability and sustainability for financing medical education and proposed using foundation grants and loan forgiveness programs as possible strategies.
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From page 29...
... Leon McDougle, M.D., M.P.H.,9 expanded on Britt's comment, and suggested that accountability to promote diversity and inclusion in residencies can be built into accreditation standards. He stated that his institution is advocating for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to adopt a standard for diversity and inclusion similar to the existing one for medical schools.
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... Bright, M.D., FACP,13 asked the panelists when and how they discuss racism with their students. He also inquired about strategies to discuss racism in a way that students "maintain that positive self-image before it becomes totally torn down because they start to buy into that stereotype threat." Holden said that Mentoring in Medicine discusses racism from the beginning, and that their school-based programs incorporate a segment on health care disparities.
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From page 31...
... 2011. Race is not neutral: A national investigation of African American and Latino disproportionality in school discipline.
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