Positive BHM Follow-Up Showing Medical Progress in Action

Thursday February 13, 2025

Last year during MVT CID’s annual celebration of Black History Month, we highlighted the work some of the organizations headquartered here in MVT are doing to promote equity and empower Black members of their professional communities. One of the organizations to earn a spotlight was Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the work it’s doing to “support initiatives and projects that advance equity, diversity, and inclusion in the academic medicine community.” In 2020, AAMC – in collaboration with the National Medical Association (NMA) – launched the Action Collaborative for Black Men in Medicine in response to a staggering statistic that less than 3% of doctors are Black men. The Action Collaborative aims to:

Identify replicable solutions to amplify and support Black men’s interest in a career in medicine and/or in the biomedical sciences.
Use existing data and evidence to develop systems-based solutions to address exclusionary practices that create barriers for Black men and prevent them from having equitable opportunities to successfully enroll in medical school.
Convene key partners to act on measurable solutions.

Today, we are pleased to share this morning’s Axios D.C. article showing, “D.C. sees increase in Black medical students.” According to data reported by AAMC that was cited in the article, the number of first-year Black medical students has increased in DC from 23.5% in 2023 to 29.8% this year, even as the national average has fallen sharply. Why this matters, according to the article, is because of multiple studies that show having doctors who resemble the patients they’re serving can improve health outcomes and enable patients to feel more comfortable voicing health concerns.

We are heartened to know that the work AAMC and organizations like Howard University are doing to eliminate the health equity gap is paying off even in the smallest of ways and we encourage you to visit aamcaction.org to learn more about ways AAMC is working to advocate and improve the academic medical community.

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