Perspectives on Medical School Admission for Black Students Among Premedical Advisers at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There remains a lack of representation of Black physicians in the physician workforce despite decades of national efforts to increase diversity. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) contribute to increasing representation in the workforce in the US. There is limited literature exploring the experiences of HBCU premedical students navigating the journey to medical school.

Objective

To examine barriers to and facilitators of medical school matriculation among Black students by exploring the perspectives of premedical student advisers at HBCUs.

Design, setting, and participants

In this qualitative study, HBCU advisers participated in a focus group in October 2019 or in semistructured interviews from January 2020 to March 2021. Using purposive s

SUBMITTER: Weiss J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581641 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature