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Share of African American men going into medicine hits historic low

Diversity advocates seek strategies to correct alarming decrease.
  1. Giorgia Guglielmi
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Even as US diversity initiatives try to increase the representation of minority ethnic groups in science and medicine, the proportion of black men pursuing such careers is reaching historic lows. In 1986, 57% of African American medical-school graduates were men — but by 2015 that share had dropped to just 35%, even as the total number of black graduates had increased.

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Nature 557, 621-622 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05203-z

References

  1. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. An American Crisis: The Growing Absence of Black Men in Medicine and Science (The National Academies Press, 2018); available at https://doi.org/10.17226/25130

  2. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration and Bureau of Health Professions. The Rationale for Diversity in the Health Professions: A Review of the Evidence (HHS, 2006); available at http://go.nature.com/2lzvslw

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