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The AspiringDocs.org campaign features real-life stories of minority physicians and medical students who have achieved or are achieving their dreams of becoming doctors. What barriers stood in their way, and how did they overcome them? These individuals and their stories are featured on the campaign's Web site.
Nominate someone today! (Word, 2 pages)

Questions? Contact:

Lennia Chandler
Program Specialist
lchandler@aamc.org
202-862-6022

Alston Roberts
Communications Specialist
aroberts@aamc.org
202-741-0759

An AAMC Campaign to Increase Diversity in Medicine

The faces of our nation's physicians and medical scientists do not reflect our increasingly diverse country. While racial and ethnic minorities make up 25 percent of the United States population, only 12 percent of students graduating from our nation's medical schools are from these groups.

To provide more culturally competent care and improve access to health care, the AAMC is launching an aggressive, research-based outreach campaign to raise awareness of the critical need for more diversity in medicine and to encourage well-prepared African-American, Latino/a, and Native American students to apply to and enroll in medical school.

Spread the Word

We need your help to spread the word about AspiringDocs.org and the importance of increasing diversity in medicine. The following resources are designed to help your institution or organization join the campaign:

AspiringDocs.org Toolkit
Contains ideas, tools, and resources to help you incorporate the AspiringDocs campaign into your minority student outreach and recruitment efforts.

We've created fact sheets, print ads, and other promotional materials to get you started.

AspiringDocs.org Advertising

Print ads: The AspiringDocs.org Toolkit includes guidelines and materials you can use to produce effective ads.

Web ads: Choose from a selection of logos and banner ads, or create a text link to AspiringDocs.org.

Student brochure (PDF, 5 pages)

News

AAMC Awards AspiringDocs.org Video Contest Winners with $1,000 for Medical School Costs
Ten college students and aspiring doctors revealed their dreams of a career in medicine in the first-ever AspiringDocs.org Video Contest and were rewarded with financial assistance to help cover the costs of preparing for and applying to medical school. (Feb. 24, 2009)

AAMC Launches Campaign to Increase Diversity in Medicine
The AAMC announced a marketing campaign to encourage more minority students to choose medicine as a career. AspiringDocs.org is both a Web site and an outreach effort to provide undergraduate minority students with the support, information, and guidance they need to apply to and enroll in medical school. (Nov. 16, 2006)

On the Issue

Changing the Face of Medicine
Medscape video editorial by AAMC President Darrell G. Kirch, M.D. (requires free registration)

Increasing Diversity in the Medical Workforce
Video editorial by former AAMC President Jordan J. Cohen, M.D.