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Home / / Awesome! Group Answers The Call To America’s Shortage Of Black Doctors

Awesome! Group Answers The Call To America’s Shortage Of Black Doctors

Kameron Matthews and Alden Landry Tour for Diversity co-foundersLet’s face it. We need more Black doctors.

With implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nationwide physician shortages have been accelerated, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The AAMC estimates that the U.S. currently faces a shortage of 15,000 to 20,000 physicians, and it predicts that the shortage will grow to more than 90,000 physicians by 2020. Even more concerning is the disproportionate number of practicing minority physicians. Recent studies have shown that African-Americans make up just under 4 percent of practicing physicians, 6 percent of trainees in graduate medical education and 7 percent of medical school graduates. Wow.

A dwindling share of students pursuing physician careers are African-American men. 2.5% of medical school applicants were black men in 2011, a drop from 2.6% in 2002. Given the trend of the last thirty years, those numbers will only decrease.

Dr. Alden Landry
Dr. Alden Landry

Enter the Tour for Diversity in Medicine (TDM). TDM is an organization with a clear goal: to educate, inspire, and cultivate future minority physicians and dentists, and erase uneven health outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities through mentoring. Twice a year, Tour for Diversity in Medicine recruits a team of top minority doctors to travel by bus across the nation, touring universities and high schools to mentor minority students headed to medical school. Each bus tour covers thousands of miles visiting Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities, high schools and specific geographic areas with limited underrepresented minorities in medicine.

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Dr. Kameron Matthews
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The Tour of Diversity in Medicine was founded by Alden M Landry, MD and Kameron Leigh Matthews, MD, JD. Dr. Matthews is a Chief Medical Officer in Chicago while Dr. Landry is an emergency medicine physician from New York. Now, they are teaming up on a nationwide tour! “We realized that there was a need to reach out to students on their own home turf. Therefore, we created the Tour of Diversity in Medicine to use an old method of college tours on a bus and visit schools and bring our advice, our mentoring, and our experiences to them,” explained Dr. Matthews.

The tour targets specific geographic areas with students from disadvantaged backgrounds, lower-income…

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