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The impact of a medical-school-based summer program on the acceptance of minority undergraduate students into health professional schools. 1983

J C Pisano, and A C Epps

A summer program for minority-group undergraduate students who are oriented toward careers in health was established at the Tulane School of Medicine in 1968. Students were admitted independent of their performance in undergraduate science courses. Beginning in 1972, follow-up statistics were maintained on all participants; utilizing these statistics, the authors evaluated the impact of summer program intervention on the acceptance rate into health professional schools of 303 participants between 1972 and 1979. The results show that 209 (70 percent) of the participants were accepted by a health professional school, compared with 37 percent of 212 applicants to the 1976 summer program who were not selected for summer program participation. These results strongly suggest that summer program intervention plays a positive role in the student's attempt to gain admittance to a health professional school.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008145	Louisiana	State bounded by Arkansas on the north, by Mississippi on the east, the Gulf of Mexico on the south and Texas on the west.
D008297	Male		Males
D008913	Minority Groups	A subgroup having special characteristics within a larger group, often bound together by special ties which distinguish it from the larger group.	Group, Minority,Groups, Minority,Minority Group
D004516	Education, Premedical	Introductory courses leading to an advance study in medicine.	Premedical Education,Medical Propedeutics,Medical Propedeutic,Propedeutic, Medical,Propedeutics, Medical
D004521	Educational Measurement	The assessing of academic or educational achievement. It includes all aspects of testing and test construction.	Assessment, Educational,Graduate Records Examination,Educational Assessment,Examination, Graduate Records,Measurement, Educational,Assessments, Educational,Educational Assessments,Educational Measurements,Examinations, Graduate Records,Graduate Records Examinations,Measurements, Educational
D005260	Female		Females
D005500	Follow-Up Studies	Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.	Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006281	Health Occupations	Professions or other business activities directed to the cure and prevention of disease. For occupations of medical personnel who are not physicians but who are working in the fields of medical technology, physical therapy, etc., ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS is available.	Health Professions,Health Occupation,Health Profession,Profession, Health,Professions, Health
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012570	School Admission Criteria	Requirements for the selection of students for admission to academic institutions.	Student Selection,Admission Criteria, School,Criteria, School Admission,Selection, Student,Selections, Student,Student Selections