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Joel H. Lanphear, PhD

JAMA. 1986;256(18):2567-2568.

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In this issue of THE JOURNAL, Knopke et al¹ report successful outcomes from "Bio-Prep: A Premedical Program for Rural High School Students." The project, designed to help and motivate disadvantaged but talented students from rural Alabama consider careers in the health professions, shows great promise for increasing the number of qualified minority applicants. Project students performed significantly higher than matched nonproject students on the American College Testing Program entrance examination and chose professional and health-related careers earlier and more frequently than matched nonprogram students.¹

This program represents a positive response to decreasing minority enrollments in the health professions and to shortages of physicians in rural areas of the South and intermountain West. The significance of such programs has far-reaching implications for major medical education institutions, which are essentially urban based.

Black Americans constituted 11.7% of the country's population in 1980 but only 3.1% of the nation's physicians.

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Author Affiliations
University of Nevada School of Medicine Reno

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