An American Crisis The Growing Absence of Black Men in Medicine and Science: Proceedings of a Joint Workshop (2018) / Chapter Skim
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11 Reflections on the Workshop and Final Thoughts
11 Reflections on the Workshop and Final Thoughts
Pages 93-104
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• Leadership is crucial for health professional schools to address the crisis of Black men in medicine and to holding these schools accountable for increasing diversity.
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4 Jones is senior fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine.
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Evans also suggested celebrating resilience and focusing on strengths to develop a positive racial identity. In summation, Powell identified the most important strategy to address challenges along the life trajectory to be the "cultivation of more comprehensive wraparound programs for Black men as they matriculate through medical education, but also before there." She continued, "We have to speak to the wounds that exist within Black men if we are going to really help them progress in the field of medicine." 5 Mitchell is chief medical examiner for the District of Columbia.
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Finally, Holden identified rigorous pipeline programs that start early and 7 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. 8 For more information on the minority tax, see Chapters 2 and 4.
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10 Moore is interim vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, execuive director, Todd A Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male, t and College of Education and Human Ecology distinguished professor of urban education at The Ohio State University.
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First, he endorsed increasing awareness and access to existing scholarships and other funding opportunities -- including, for example, the National Medical Fellowships Emergency Scholarship Program that finances non-educational costs for students at risk of discontinuing their medical education owing to financial crises.14 Relatedly, he discussed the need to recognize and understand the financial challenges to preparing and applying for undergraduate education, medical school, and residency, and for required exams in addition to the costs of the education tuition, as well as the need to recognize social and familial challenges of students while in school. As additional key strategies to address financial barriers, Corbin also identified advocacy to support U.S.-born Black men in private and public institutions and exploring partnership opportunities for scholarships, endowments, and philanthropy with local efforts.
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First, he proposed maintaining an open dialogue between academia and philanthropies to align goals to address junctures in the medical education pipeline where Black boys and men are "leaking out." Second, he suggested the need for programs designed to help mitigate the financial and social barriers faced by underresourced men of color. As the most important strategy from the panel, Bright identified the "need to have more committed folks that are doing these types of programs to make sure that we have the entities in place to help our students."
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Valantine, M.D., M.R.C.P.,17 proposed. Ofili also reviewed the effectiveness of the Health Resources and Services Administration health workforce programs at achieving a high number of trainees from historically disadvantaged backgrounds.
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The ideas are not intended to reflect a consensus among workshop participants. Strengthening the Medical Educational Pipeline Some strategies to support individual students to navigate the medical educational pipeline include exploring, replicating, or expanding pipeline programs with potential; identifying and recruiting new and more students; and enhancing advising and mentorship for underrepresented minority students in the health professions.
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These include getting academic leadership to acknowledge the absence of Black men in science and medicine as a problem and to make commitments to address the problem, harnessing technology to overcome financial barriers, and engaging with new and additional partners. In terms of gaining commitments from academic leadership, Laurencin, Montgomery Rice, and Pinn endorsed reaching out to the Association of American Medical Colleges and its Council of Deans and asking them to acknowledge the lack of Black men in medicine as a problem and making a commitment to work to change it, such as through a letter of commitment.
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Building on Montgomery Rice's suggestion, Azar put forward engaging Google in marketing. Two participants raised the need to change attitudes of and expectations for the kinds of students health professional schools are looking to capture and redefining metrics of success.
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