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Jun 7, 2021 · Black men have the highest age-adjusted death rate of any major race-gender group in America. Understanding their perceived barriers to accessing health care may benefit future interventions working to increase Black men’s health care engagement.
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Jul 28, 2020 · Medicine has reached a new consciousness of the depth and devastation of racism in the United States. Amid a national-turned-global reckoning on racism in the spring of 2020, medical...
- Dereck W. Paul, Kelly R. Knight, Andre Campbell, Louise Aronson
- 2020
In this Perspective, the authors contend that while mentoring is often considered among the most important strategies to increase the number of Black men in medicine, unique challenges in this demographic can diminish its effectiveness.
Nov 28, 2020 · The importance of role models is one reason why representation in medicine matters, because Black students need to see people who look like future versions of themselves.
- Adetomiwa V Owoseni
- 2020
Jan 6, 2021 · Prostate cancer is more than twice as common among Black men as among White men. 27 Genomewide association studies have identified variants at 8q24 that are associated with prostate-cancer...
- Luisa N. Borrell, Jennifer R. Elhawary, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, Jonathan Witonsky, Nirav Bhakta, Alan...
- 2021
The representation of Black men in medicine is a troubling workforce issue that was identified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as a national crisis. While premedical pathway programs have contributed to increased workforce diversity, alone they are insufficient to accelerate change.
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Jul 10, 2020 · Black Lives Matter — we pledge to do our part to eliminate racism in science and medicine. George Floyd died on 25 May 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A Black man, he was killed by a white...