Medical school graduates from minority groups still aren't representative of U.S. population

Even as historically underrepresented groups have come to make up a larger proportion of the U.S. population, they are not represented in equal numbers among U.S. medical school graduates, new research suggests. The proportion of graduates from underrepresented racial groups has nearly doubled since 1980, but they still only made up about a fifth of all graduates in 2018. At the same time, almost a third of the U.S. population in 2018 was made up of those from underrepresented racial groups. The study also looked at internal medicine faculty and found similar discrepancies: Although the overall number of faculty in this specialty increased nearly fourfold by 2018, only about 1 in 10 were from a minority group.