Medical schools must do more to open the door to first generation and low income students.
Medical schools must do more to open the door to first generation and low income students.
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医学院必须采取更多措施向第一代和低收入学生敞开大门。
DOI：
10.1136/bmj.o1246
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发表时间：
2022
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Gratreak,BrittanyDk
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Sawyer,DanielleL;Gratreak,BrittanyDk
For first generation and low income (FLI) students the path to medical school does not run smooth. Students who are the first people in their family to obtain a college degree and who are on low incomes start their pre-medical journey with fewer resources 1 and less time for accomplishments that will burnish their medical school application than their more privileged peers. Yet admissions committees consistently fail to take this into consideration and mitigate against the resulting inequities.In the US, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has made efforts to diversify medicine, for example by implementing a socioeconomic indicator status (SES-EO) on application forms to give this context during admissions decisions. Despite this, FLI students still face overwhelming hardships in their efforts to become a physician, which are exacerbated by a lack of support from the medical profession. As first generation college students who are now studying medicine, we know how these barriers can hold FLI students back from applying to medical school and being accepted.
