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Title The right thing to do, the smart thing to do : enhancing diversity in the health professions : summary of the Symposium on Diversity in Health Professions in honor of Herbert W. Nickens, M.D. / Brian D. Smedley [and others]
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press : Institute of Medicine, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 366 pages) : illustrations, charts (some color)
Contents The Right thing to do, the smart thing to do: enhancing diversity in the health professions -- The Role of diversity in the training of health professionals -- Increasing racial and ethnic diversity among physicians: an intervention to address health disparities -- Current legal status of affirmative action programs in higher education -- College admission policies and the educational pipeline: implications for medical and health professions -- Toward diverse student representation and higher achievement in higher levels of the American educational meritocracy -- Trends in underrepresented minority participation in health professions schools -- Inequality in teaching and schooling: how opportunity is rationed to students of color in America -- Lost opportunities: the difficult journey to higher education for underrepresented minority students -- Systemic reform and minority student high achievement -- Sustaining minorities in prehealth advising programs -- Rethinking the admissions process: evaluation techniques that promote inclusiveness in admissions decisions -- How do we retain minority health professions students?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Medical personnel -- Recruiting -- United States -- Congresses
Diversity in the workplace -- United States -- Congresses
Medical personnel.
Culture.
Personnel management.
Organization.
Sociology.
Medical care.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Health services administration.
Social sciences.
Cultural pluralism.
Employee selection.
Health Personnel
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
Culture
Publication Formats
Personnel Management
Occupational Groups
Publication Characteristics
Organization and Administration
Sociology
Delivery of Health Care
Americas
Anthropology, Cultural
Persons
Anthropology
Geographic Locations
Health Services Administration
Named Groups
Social Sciences
Geographicals
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Cultural Diversity
Personnel Selection
Patient Care
culture note.
sociology.
anthropology.
social sciences.
culture (concept)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
Sociology
Social sciences
Personnel management
Organization
Medical personnel
Medical care
Health services administration
Ethnology
Employee selection
Culture
Cultural pluralism
Anthropology
Diversity in the workplace
Medical personnel -- Recruiting
SUBJECT North America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092455
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
North America https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009656
Subject North America
United States
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Festschriften
Conference papers and proceedings
Festschriften.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Nickens, Herbert W.
Smedley, Brian D.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.)
Symposium on Diversity in Health Professions in Honor of Herbert W. Nickens, M.D. (2001 : National Academy of Sciences)
LC no. 2001277451
ISBN 0309509955
9780309509954
9780309076142
0309076145
9780309170482
0309170486