Press Release: National Study Reveals Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Medical School Grades
Contact: Katherine B. Lee, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine,
Source: "Making the Grade:" Noncognitive Predictors of Medical Students' Clinical Clerkship Grades
Publication Information: Journal of the National Medical Association, October 2007, Volume 99, No 10, Pages 1138-1150. Click here to download the original article.
Minorities receive lower grades in medical school than Whites, according to a new study.
Graph: % of medical students in each race receiving the highest grade (A or Honors) in Pediatrics clerkship. P<.001. Trends are similar for all disciplines analyzed. Underrepresented Minorities= Black, Hispanic, native-American or native-Alaskan origin or any combination of these descriptors.
Study: Lower Grades For APA Medical Students
By Rex Feng, Dec 12, 2007
ST. LOUIS — Asian American students are underperforming compared to their white counterparts in medical school for reasons that seem to suggest a lack of cultural understanding in one of the highest echelons of academia, according to a study published in the October issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association….
http://www.asianweek.com/2007/12/12/study-lower-grades-for-apa-medical-students/
Cultural differences skew medical school grades
By Jeremy Rogoff
Issue date: 12/10/07 Section: News
A nationwide study done by a Washington University medical student has shown a relationship between ethnicity and top-level success in medical school. The study, which polled 2,395 medical students from 105 institutions, concluded that non-white students receive consistently lower grades in their final two years of medical school….. more
