Workforce Management: Cultivating Medical Workforce Diversity Through Medical School Recruitment

Cultivating medical workforce diversity—a key component of health equity—will require upstream efforts at the medical college level. Ideally, medical schools would have a diverse student population that would then create for a diverse hospital or health system applicant pool. Robert Cain, DO, and Helene Cameron, PhD, outline how the American Academy of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) is working to create medical workforce diversity at the medical school level.