Disparities in pre-health advising across California's public universities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., v. Harvard College is likely to result in the matriculation of fewer students from historically excluded racial/ethnic groups at more selective colleges and universities and matriculation of more students at less selective colleges and universities. Because of this, it is important to understand how resources for pre-health advising, a modifiable factor that can help increase the diversity of the health workforce, vary across institutions with differing levels of selectivity. Colleges are known to vary in resources, structure, and investment in pre-health advising but data are lacking and there is no estimate of any pre-health advising resource gap.

Purpose

To quantify availability of advising res

SUBMITTER: Rios-Fetchko F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10857704 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature