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More minority physicians needed to reduce health disparities, House members told

from MedPage Today

More minority physicians needed to reduce health disparities, House members told MedPage Today Recruiting more minority physicians would help reduce the healthcare disparities that have become evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, several experts said at a House hearing. Increasing funding to programs such as the Health Careers Opportunity Program, which helps people from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds enter the health professions, "would help diversify the pipeline — a more diverse physician workforce would be very helpful," said Alicia Fernandez, MD, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and an internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. READ MORE

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