title: Increasing the pool of minority providers.
abstract: The University of Arkansas has trained African-American medical students for 46 years. Today the school continues to place a high premium on recruiting and retaining minority medical students. Recruitment efforts involve comprehensive programs to target junior high schools in African-American communities throughout Arkansas, and initiatives to attract African-American faculty and residents. Through such retention-oriented activities as lenient first-year grade requirements, study groups, and a board-preparation course, African-American students have scored above the national average on Part I of the National Medical Board Examination despite matriculating in medical school with below-average scores on the Medical College Admission Test.
authors.affiliation: College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock 72205.
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001131:Arkansas; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States