Medical faculty acceptances for Black college students are declining. A motion needs to make change

For centuries, Black Americans hurdled obstacles to follow medication by finding out in different nations, creating faculties and constructing hospitals of their very own. After the civil rights motion, simply 2% of training medical doctors had been Black. While that quantity has greater than doubled, acceptance charges of Black candidates into medical faculties are on the decline. Michelle Miller has extra.

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