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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 7Vn9R0x0. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Context. - Increasing the number of minority physicians is a long-standing goal of professional associations and government. Objective. - To determine the effectiveness of an intensive summer educational program for minority college students and recent graduates on the probability of acceptance to medical school. Design. - Nonconcurrent prospective cohort study based on data from medical school applications, Medical College Admission Tests, and the Association of American Medical Colleges Student and Applicant Information Management System. Setting. - Eight US medical schools or consortia of medical schools. Participants. - Underrepresented minority (black, Mexican American, mainland Puerto Rican, and American Indian) applicants to US allopathic medical schools in 1997 (N=3830), 1996 (N=4654), and 1992 (N=3447). Intervention. - The Minority Medical Education Program (MMEP), a 6-week, residential summer educational program focused on training in the sciences and improvement of writing, verbal reasoning, studying, test taking, and presentation skills. Main Outcome Measure. - Probability of acceptance to at least 1 medical school. Results. - In the 1997 medical school application cohort, 223 (49.3%) of 452 MMEP participants were accepted compared with 1406 (41.6%) of 3378 minority nonparticipants (P=002). (...)
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