Medical school admission committees can act within current legal guidelines to identify and recruit students from groups that are underrepresented in medicine.
PRIME-LC is a 5-year, dual-degree program at the University of California, Irvine Medical School that educates physician activists to serve in poor Latino communities.
Medical ethicists have discussed the use of race classification in determining disease prevalence and the response of specific ethnic groups to different medications.
Physicians need to take an active role in improving the genetic literacy of the general population and also push for public health policies that make new genetic tools available to everyone.
Alan Heins, an emergency room physician honored by the AMA for his leadership abilities, believes time management and establishing priorities are essential in both medical school and scheduling work hours for physicians.
Genetic information is redefining what society and the medical profession considers to be normal and what departures from the norm are deserving of medical intervention.