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From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Minorities account for 30 percent of the US population, but only eight percent of the physician workforce, and experience less personal satisfaction during medical school than nonminority students, finds a Mayo Clinic study published in the November issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. More than 1,000 students from three Minnesota medical schools were surveyed and minority students were found to have a lower sense of personal accomplishment and quality of life than their nonminority peers. Further study is warranted to assess how to aid minority students during their education to prevent attrition, says Liselotte Dyrbye, M.D., the study's lead author. "Further research exploring medical school experience of minority students is needed to help understand the barriers to development of a racially and ethnically diverse physician workforce," says Dr. Dyrbye. Stress among medical students was the subject of a second article in November's Mayo Clinic Proceedings. This study concluded that a pass fail grading method produces less stress among medical school students than the traditional A--F grading method, without affecting scores on standardized exams. The authors suggest that the pass-fail grading system should be used more frequently with medical students. "The quality of future health care is dependent upon the creation of psychologically healthy physicians who work cooperatively in multidisciplinary teams," says Daniel Rohe, Ph.D., lead author of the second study.
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