TY  - JOUR
T1  - PReventing twists, turns on road to medical education from becoming permanent detours
Y1  - 1989/01/13
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1989.03420020015004
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 189
EP  - 193
VL  - 261
IS  - 2
N2  - ON THE LONG ROAD to the medical school campus, there are many twists and turns. If you are black, those twists are even more likely than for whites to become permanent detours. Observers both inside and out of the medical profession say that such a result lessens opportunities for today's aspiring young blacks and deprives tomorrow's black patients of medical care.They are striving to clear the path, but they acknowledge that solutions are not easy. Childhood experiences, popular culture images, and the educational system are some of the factors that make the task of recruiting blacks into medicine daunting."Who are the guys with money, girls, and a car? The pimp, the pusher, or the athlete. It's perceived that you don't have to be very smart to be an athlete... it's much easier for a kid to perceive himself being tough rather than bright," says Preston R. Black, MD,
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1989.03420020015004
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03420020015004
ER  -