Below is a memorandum written by Dr. Darrell Kirsch, President of the AAMC:
For the second time in a decade, the AAMC has joined with a distinguished group of 29 other educational and health professional organizations to reinforce with the Supreme Court the well-established connection between a diverse student body and a health care workforce that is best prepared to reduce health disparities and ensure the health of all. The nexus between diversity in medical education and the advancement of health care equity in the United States has driven the AAMC’s strategic priority of leading efforts to increase diversity in medicine. As explained by Justice Powell in the Supreme Court case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke nearly 34 years ago:
For the second time in a decade, the AAMC has joined with a distinguished group of 29 other educational and health professional organizations to reinforce with the Supreme Court the well-established connection between a diverse student body and a health care workforce that is best prepared to reduce health disparities and ensure the health of all. The nexus between diversity in medical education and the advancement of health care equity in the United States has driven the AAMC’s strategic priority of leading efforts to increase diversity in medicine. As explained by Justice Powell in the Supreme Court case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke nearly 34 years ago: