Black Medical Student Enrollment: Let's Hear It for East Carolina University School of Medicine

To the Editor.—  The article titled "Black Student Enrollment in US Medical Schools"¹ presents important data about the entry of blacks and other underrepresented minorities into medical school. The facts and figures in the article provide convincing evidence of the need to increase efforts in recruiting and retaining underrepresented minorities in medical school. The section of the article about possible solutions states that "several US medical schools have distinguished themselves by having a relatively high percentage of underrepresented minorities in their entering class." The article continues by stating that in addition to the traditionally black medical schools, 15 medical institutions had entering classes of which more than 15% were minorities in 1987 to 1988. It recognizes one school in North Carolina that had only a 15% minority entry that year and omits the relatively new East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, which had a 15.3% minority entry