{"id":6595494,"date":"2019-07-26T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.net\/wordpress\/?p=6540166"},"modified":"2019-07-26T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:20:02","slug":"aua-charles-drew-university-partner-to-increase-med-school-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/?p=6595494","title":{"rendered":"AUA, Charles Drew University Partner to Increase Med School Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American University of Antigua (AUA) College of Medicine and Charles R. Drew University (CDU) of Medicine and Science are teaming up to create a new admissions pathway for African-Americans and other under-represented minorities to fulfill their dreams of practicing medicine.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the June 2019 agreement, CDU postbaccalaureate students who meet admissions requirements would earn automatic acceptance to medical school at AUA and up to $60,000 in scholarships to fund their education. CDU students completing the school\u2019s Master\u2019s in Biomedical Science Program are also eligible.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s perhaps natural to partner AUA\u2014a longtime advocate of diversity in the physician workforce\u2014with CDU, a historically black college and university (HBCU) founded in 1966 to address healthcare disparities in southern Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

According to data from the Association for American Medical Colleges, a disproportionate number of African-Americans are entering and attending medical school when compared to other ethnicities. For the 2018-2019 medical school admissions cycle, only 8 percent of medical school applicants<\/a> identified as African-American. In addition, for that same period, African-Americans accounted for only 7 percent<\/a> of all matriculating medical school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American University of Antigua (AUA) College of Medicine and Charles R. Drew University (CDU) of Medicine and Science are teaming up to create a new admissions pathway for African-Americans and other under-represented minorities to fulfill their dreams of practicing medicine. Under the terms of the June 2019 agreement, CDU postbaccalaureate students who meet admissions requirements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6540313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6595494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aua-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6595494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6540313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6595494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6595494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6595494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}