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The Role of Medical Education in Reducing Health Care Disparities: The First Ten Years of the UCLA/Drew Medical Education Program

2007; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 22; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11606-007-0154-z

1525-1497

Michelle Ko, Kevin C. Heslin, Ronald A. Edelstein, Kevin Grumbach,

Medical Education and Admissions

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)/Charles R. Drew University Medical Education Program was developed to train physicians for practice in underserved areas. The UCLA/Drew Medical Education Program students receive basic science instruction at UCLA and complete their required clinical rotations in South Los Angeles, an impoverished urban community. We have previously shown that, in comparison to their UCLA counterparts, students in the Drew program had greater odds of maintaining their commitment to medically disadvantaged populations over the course of medical education.