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8 Financial Barriers to Medical Education
8 Financial Barriers to Medical Education
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can threaten students' continuation in medical school.
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2 Hill is senior vice president and diversity officer, Enterprise Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health and Alpha Boulé chapter of the Sigma Pi Phi fraternity. 3 Knight is assistant professor of medicine and patient safety officer, Division of General Internal Medicine at The George Washington University and former president of the Student National Medical Association.
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The former provides service scholarships to 1st-year through 3rd-year medical students to conduct a community health project and residency scholarships of $25,000 to decrease medical school debt to 4th-year medical students who are matched as clinical residents in the Chicago area and who exhibit a commitment to serving underserved populations in Chicago.5 The Primary Care Leadership Program places 2nd-year and 3rd-year medical students, graduate nursing students, and graduate physician assistant students in partnering community health centers (CHCs)
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Looking into the history of the university, Hill discovered that the first Black graduate from Jefferson Medical College was Algernon Brashear Jackson in 1901. Together, Jackson and fellow African American Jefferson Medical College alumnus Henry McKee Minton founded Sigma Pi Phi, also known as the Boulé, a fraternal organization composed of prominent Black men, many of whom have been or are leaders in advocating for civil rights, social justice, economic and educational equality, and which offers professional and social support for Black professionals, 8 For more information, see https://w3.jefferson.edu/giving/sigma-pi-phi.html (accessed March 9, 2018)
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Medicine pipeline program at Sidney Kimmel Medical College. The STEP-UP program is a comprehensive summer enrichment program for undergraduate students from groups underrepresented in the medical professions and from economically disadvantaged backgrounds who intend to apply to medical school.10 It provides preparation for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
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He urged the audience to think about financial barriers early in the pipeline, starting with the costs of preparing for and taking the SAT in high school, college applications, undergraduate tuition and loans, applying to medical school (including preparing for and taking the MCATs and travel for interviews) , medical school tuition, and through the costs of applying to residency programs.
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For those who graduate college and are accepted to medical school, Knight described the cost of graduate medical education as a psychological barrier. He said, When you are coming from a family that is hardly making anything, thinking about a loan in the hundreds of thousands, yes, you are go ing to be a physician.
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Building on this comment, Victoria Mallett, M.D., M.M.M.,13 raised the need for financial literacy at an even younger age. Underrepresented minority students often come to medical school with greater indebtedness from their undergraduate education.
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