What groups are considered underrepresented?

[kdizzy]

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What are the minority groups that are considered underrepresented? Are they underrepresented in the medical community? what is the criteria? Is being Arabic considered a URM?

 

[Sarahgelatinano]

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[scowdeva]

Hmmm I'm not sure about Persians, Arabics or Iranians. But I do know that African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics are considered under-represented. Those are the only ones that I have ever heard of as being URM...

 

[njbmd]

What are the minority groups that are considered underrepresented? Are they underrepresented in the medical community? what is the criteria? Is being Arabic considered a URM?

Go to the AAMC site and read their statement on ethnic groups that are considered underrepresented in medicine.

 

[Big Bayood]

I have the same exact question...and I looked everywhere on the AAMC website, and could not find a single solid definition. Any help would be appreciated....

I have numerous different things. I have always thought that Hispanic (for example, from argentina) was included in URM, however, it appears that only Mexicans are (from the hispanic perspective?) Also, do you have to decalre URM status, or does it do so automatically based on your ethnicity on AAMC.....thanks

 

[scowdeva]

It does it automatically based on the ethnicity you select.

 

[just thoughts]

I have the same exact question...and I looked everywhere on the AAMC website, and could not find a single solid definition. Any help would be appreciated....

I have numerous different things. I have always thought that Hispanic (for example, from argentina) was included in URM, however, it appears that only Mexicans are (from the hispanic perspective?) Also, do you have to decalre URM status, or does it do so automatically based on your ethnicity on AAMC.....thanks

here is the link to the page on the AAMC site that defines "underrepresented in medicine." you should definitely read the clarification that was adopted three years ago.

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

 

[kdizzy]

so if there are a lot of doctors from your race, comparatively, to your total racial population in the US then you aren't a minority...hmmmm

 

[LovelyMD]

so if there are a lot of doctors from your race, comparatively, to your total racial population in the US then you aren't a minority...hmmmm

correction: you aren't an underrepresented minority

 

[just thoughts]

so if there are a lot of doctors from your race, comparatively, to your total racial population in the US then you aren't a minority...hmmmm

i would actually modify this a bit. it's not that the ethnic or racial group in question is not a "minority." it's that the ethnic or racial group is not "underrepresented in medicine." those are very different, and many people seem to get them confused.

 

[DiveMD]

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[XeReX]

so if there are a lot of doctors from your race, comparatively, to your total racial population in the US then you aren't a minority...hmmmm

Are Pakistani born American permanent residents considered underrepresented in medicine? My cousin came to USA in 2008, and now he is going to college as a freshman in fall 2010. so would he be considered as underrepresented?

 

[Namedmymember]

Are Pakistani born American permanent residents considered underrepresented in medicine? My cousin came to USA in 2008, and now he is going to college as a freshman in fall 2010. so would he be considered as underrepresented?

No any expert or anything, but I would be surprised if he was considered URM. I think there are lots of South Asian people in medicine compared to their percentage of the population.

 

[TaylorMDhopeful]

Each region and the schools within it can make their own determination of what they deem to be underrepresented in medicine. In some regions Hmong are considered underrepresented by schools and they are Asian.

 

[Espadaleader]

Anyone near eastern is not considered an URM. You're considered "Asian"

 

[TaylorMDhopeful]

Anyone near eastern is not considered an URM. You're considered "Asian"

Yes, there is a difference between underrepresented and underrepresented minority. There are Asian groups (like the Hmong out west) without doctors to serve their people so by some schools' designation, they are underrepresented, but not underrepresented minorities or URM designation as most people would see in these forums. So at some schools with strong Hmong populations in their state/city, Hmong applicants may be given a second look or a little leeway in the process to increase their numbers. It is up to the school to make that designation based on the environment that the school is in and what is needed by the population of their state/city.

 

[jasin]

I would have to say, without a doubt, the deaf community. We are not a group that is based upon ethnicity or race but we are a minority group nonetheless.

 

[eablackwell]

I would have to say, without a doubt, the deaf community. We are not a group that is based upon ethnicity or race but we are a minority group nonetheless.

I don't think they count diabilities (not officially). I am in a wheelchair, and I came on this part of the forum awhile back and everyone told me I wasn't underrepresented. AAMC told me to register for that whatever it was on MCAT registration, but here they said only ethnicities count. How you're viewed really depends on each school.

 

[somepremedkid]

I have the same exact question...and I looked everywhere on the AAMC website, and could not find a single solid definition. Any help would be appreciated....

I have numerous different things. I have always thought that Hispanic (for example, from argentina) was included in URM, however, it appears that only Mexicans are (from the hispanic perspective?) Also, do you have to decalre URM status, or does it do so automatically based on your ethnicity on AAMC.....thanks

I think Puerto Ricans are inluded. From my understanding, you declare URM status...I'm not sure, though.

OP, I don't recall Arabs being included in the AAMC description of URMs, so I would say no. There are more Arab physicians than African American and Hispanic physicians although Arabs populations in the U.S. are much smaller than these two ethnic groups.