Underrepresented in Healthcare...

[flakpilot]

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Hello Everyone,
So I've been reading a couple of old threats about underrepresented minorities or underrepresented in health care, but I am, still a bit confused. I am hispanic, Born in Venezuela but my grandparents were born in Spain, so I currently hold both Nationalities. I have my green card, and I did all that paper work based on my Spanish passport, although I was born and lived in Venezuela all my life.
Am I considered a minority? What difference does it make to be underrepresented in health care when applying to med school? I guess my question is, how does that whole-underrepresented-minority-stuff work?
Thanks! 🙂

 

[MexicanDr]

SOURCE: http://www.aamc.org/meded/urm/start.htm

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Executive Committee adopted a clarification to its definition of "underrepresented in medicine" on March 19, 2004, titled "The status of the new AAMC definition of 'underrepresented in medicine' following the Supreme Court's decision in Grutter."

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) definition of underrepresented in medicine is:

"Underrepresented in medicine means those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population."

Adopted by the AAMC's Executive Council on June 26, 2003, the definition helps medical schools accomplish three important objectives:

* a shift in focus from a fixed aggregation of four racial and ethnic groups to a continually evolving underlying reality. The definition accommodates including and removing underrepresented groups on the basis of changing demographics of society and the profession,
* a shift in focus from a national perspective to a regional or local perspective on underrepresentation, and
* stimulate data collection and reporting on the broad range of racial and ethnic self-descriptions.

Before June 26, 2003, the AAMC used the term "underrepresented minority (URM)," which consisted of Blacks, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans (that is, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians), and mainland Puerto Ricans. The AAMC remains committed to ensuring access to medical education and medicine-related careers for individuals from these four historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups.

 

[flakpilot]

SOURCE: http://www.aamc.org/meded/urm/start.htm

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Executive Committee adopted a clarification to its definition of "underrepresented in medicine" on March 19, 2004, titled "The status of the new AAMC definition of 'underrepresented in medicine' following the Supreme Court's decision in Grutter."

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) definition of underrepresented in medicine is:

"Underrepresented in medicine means those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population."

Adopted by the AAMC's Executive Council on June 26, 2003, the definition helps medical schools accomplish three important objectives:

* a shift in focus from a fixed aggregation of four racial and ethnic groups to a continually evolving underlying reality. The definition accommodates including and removing underrepresented groups on the basis of changing demographics of society and the profession,
* a shift in focus from a national perspective to a regional or local perspective on underrepresentation, and
* stimulate data collection and reporting on the broad range of racial and ethnic self-descriptions.

Before June 26, 2003, the AAMC used the term "underrepresented minority (URM)," which consisted of Blacks, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans (that is, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians), and mainland Puerto Ricans. The AAMC remains committed to ensuring access to medical education and medicine-related careers for individuals from these four historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups.

Yeap I read that but still a bit confused because there's a lot of different info out there.

 

[RogueUnicorn]

Hello Everyone,
So I've been reading a couple of old threats about underrepresented minorities or underrepresented in health care, but I am, still a bit confused. I am hispanic, Born in Venezuela but my grandparents were born in Spain, so I currently hold both Nationalities. I have my green card, and I did all that paper work based on my Spanish passport, although I was born and lived in Venezuela all my life.
Am I considered a minority? What difference does it make to be underrepresented in health care when applying to med school? I guess my question is, how does that whole-underrepresented-minority-stuff work?
Thanks! 🙂

don't underrepresented minorities have enough problems as it is without threats made against them? what's this world coming to.

 

[flakpilot]

don't underrepresented minorities have enough problems as it is without threats made against them? what's this world coming to.

huh? 😕

 

[TheMightySmiter]

huh? 😕

bleargh was making fun of a typo in the first sentence in which you accidentally typed "threats" instead of "threads". Very funny, bleargh. 🙄

 

[flakpilot]

bleargh was making fun of a typo in the first sentence in which you accidentally typed "threats" instead of "threads". Very funny, bleargh. 🙄

hahaha lol. My mistake threats hahahah.

 

[GoSpursGo]

Yeap I read that but still a bit confused because there's a lot of different info out there.

Go with what the AAMC says; there are lots of other people out there who post things that are simply wrong. You may indeed be a "minority," but if you are not one of those groups specifically singled out by the AAMC (blacks, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, or mainland Puerto Ricans), you do not qualify to be considered an UNDERREPRESENTED minority. It's actually just that simple; since you don't appear to be any of those things, even if you are Hispanic, I don't think you would qualify.

 

[MexicanDr]

Go with what the AAMC says; there are lots of other people out there who post things that are simply wrong. You may indeed be a "minority," but if you are not one of those groups specifically singled out by the AAMC (blacks, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, or mainland Puerto Ricans), you do not qualify to be considered an UNDERREPRESENTED minority. It's actually just that simple; since you don't appear to be any of those things, even if you are Hispanic, I don't think you would qualify.

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