title: Increasing minorities in veterinary medicine: national trends in science degrees, local programs, and strategies.
abstract: An "outsider" analysis of veterinary medicine in the context of national participation trends in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics suggests research to explain why students gravitate-or not-to the discipline and how the future of the profession may turn on the composition of the veterinary medicine faculty. Interventions to effect change in a range of classroom and institutional practices will determine the competitive advantage of the discipline relative to other health professions.
authors.affiliation: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA. dchubin@aaas.org
authors.forename: Daryl E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Chubin
authors.forename: Sabira
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohamed
mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004520:Education, Veterinary / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012582:Schools, Veterinary; D012586:Science; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014481:United States; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends