Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do

Brian D. Smedley and Adrienne Y. Stith, Institute of Medicine; Lois Colburn, Association of American Medical Colleges; Clyde H. Evans, Association of Academic Health Centers

• 1 Front Matter; 2 The Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do: Enhancing Diversity in the Health Professions; 3 The Role of Diversity in the Training of Health Professionals; 4 Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Physicians: An Intervention to Address Health Disparities?; 5 Current Legal Status of Affirmative Action Programs in Higher Education; 6 College Admissions Policies and the Educational Pipeline: Implications for Medical and Health Professions; 7 Toward Diverse Student Representation and Higher Achievement in Higher Levels of the American Educational Meritocracy; 8 Trends in Underrepresented Minority Participation in Health Professions Schools; 9 Inequality in Teaching and Schooling: How Opportunity Is Rationed to Students of Color in America; 10 Lost Opportunities: The Difficult Journey to Higher Education for Underrepresented Minority Students; 11 Systemic Reform and Minority Student High Achievement; 12 Sustaining Minorities in Prehealth Advising Programs: Challenges and Strategies for Success; 13 Rethinking the Admissions Process: Evaluation Techniques That Promote Inclusiveness in Admissions Decisions; 14 How Do We Retain Minority Health Professions Students?; 15 Addendum