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surplu\ of near I > 60,000 physicians by ihe year 1990 and
almost 130.0(H) b> 2(XX).
To olTsei this miiplus, the committee recommended
ihat the nation's medical schools take steps to limit their
future enrollments. Doctors Sullivan, Johnson and Miller
have taken exception to the report.
Contents of a statement released by the three physicians
revealed that of the more than 375,(XX) physicians in
the U.S., less than 8,(XX) or two percent, are black,
although blacks now constitute more than twelve percent
of the nation's population
According to calculations, there is approximately one
white physician per every 625 persons tn the U.S., but,
there is only one btack physician for every 4.500 blacks.
f igures released by the American Medical Association
recently stated that the ideal optimum ratio of physicians
ix?r population is one physician for every 575 persons. If
this principles applied to the black community, then an
additional 26.(XX) black physicians will be needed by the
year 2000.
"There is a need lor us to use every available resource
to explain our position in this matter," said Miller of the
news.
Miller said that the- results of the report could be
"devastating." to the enrollment of not onlv black
medical schools, but to Dlack students that attend or
would like to attend majority medical schools.
"How manv students are willing to stay in school lor 10
years after college and get tens of thousands of dollars in
debt to hear he or she mas not have a job in 10 or 15
years," he said.
Dr. Sullivan said that he questions the validity of the
GMENAC report since no minority medical school dean
was invited to be on the board that collected the data for
the report.
"I feel the report will affect the enrollment, financial
gifts and foundation giving to black medical schools and
we just can't afford it," he said.
Miller said that he could feel an erosion of student support
and institutional support. "People who lend money
to medical school students just aren't as willing as they
were before the report came out he said, adding, "a studentxs
ability Tcrbonuw niones to attend school through
conventional means and banks_is getting harder and
harder."
Dr. Johnson said that at a meeting of the NMA, board
?oT directors- the association pledged to give its support
whole heartedly to the black medical schools and
students. _
According to the statement released bv the three black
doctors, over the past 10 years, the number of minority
pnyMLiuiis nas increased qntv marginally, and the percentage
of black physicians has not exceeded 2.2 percent.
Miller said that "clearly, continued sustained efforts to
educate more blacks and other minority physicians including
Hispanic^ and Native Americans, are needed for
the forseeable future?to ihe"year 2000 and beyond. These
goals must not be abandoned after so short a period of
effort."
i | Estimates from the Department of Health and Human
Services state that some 35.0 million Americans reside in
areas which are medically underserved. These 35.0
million people are also the economically disadvantaged,
among them, a large percentage of blacks, Hispanics and
Native American's.
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which should not be applied to minority medical schools
(nor to other programs designed to increase the number
of minoritv physicians,) are those discouraging the construction
of new medical schools and discouraging an increase
in class si/e in the future," Sullivan said.
He added, "our unique mission among the 126 medical
schools in the United States is to train more minority
students and students from economically disadvantaged
backgrounds for careers as physicians to work in
medically underserved rural areas and' in the inner
cities," he sajcE
'Miller summed up the doctor's statement by saying,
"the special needs and concerns of our medically poor
a ltd minority communities must not be overlooked or
forgotten in efforts to correct problems of physician supply
or maldistribution."
He continued, "The GMENAC report is dealing with
white doctors in suburbia, not doctors to gi\e primary
care in economically disadvantaged and minority
neighborhoods."
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