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New scholarships, outreach efforts attempt to offset impact on pipeline for Black doctors.
Underrepresentation is a longstanding problem within the medical profession.
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American medical schools are confronting their first major challenge since the US Supreme Court’s June decision to outlaw race-based college admissions.
As medical schools sift through their first round of applications since the ruling, there’s already a nascent response to diminish the impact on the pipeline of future Black doctors.