Increasing the number of minority enrollees and graduates

Blacks’ and the Health Profession: A National Crisis

“…Many of the programs, such as the University of Illinois Medical Opportunity Program, achieved significant success. 47 Wellington and Montero found that schools which broadened their admissions policies and provided special tutoring and academic support programs were most successful in increasing minority enrollment 48 Those schools with successful programs continue to recruit minority students. The year 1977 appears to have been the high watermark in the proportion of Blacks attending health professions schools (total enrollment) with the peak of acceptances in 1974-75.…”

A summer reading/study skills program for black and minority health professions students1

“…He found the need to develop a course for improving reading comprehension, reading rate, vocabulary, note-taking, report writing, and examination review, but found that transfer of learning was poor unless material directly applicable to medical courses was utilized. Plagge (1974) describes a program instituted at the University of Illinois in 1969 for matriculating minority medical students with low entrance credentials. The "Medical Opportunities Program" provided a competency-based curriculum in which faculty and upperclass advisors were employed to evaluate student problems, determine tutorial need, offer advice, and assemble teaching-learning exams.…”