September 19, 2010
A Prescription for Diversifying Medical-School Faculties
In the debate over universal health care, little attention has been paid to medical schools and their faculty members, who are an essential element of the health-care work force and who play a prominent role in issues of inequitable access to medical care and spiraling medical costs. We depend on medical-school physicians and research scientists to educate the nation's future physicians and to drive most development and innovation in U.S. medical care. But they are leaving academic medicine
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