• Althea Green, Abigail Konopasky, Ting Dong, Aaron Saguil, Dario Torre, and Steven J Durning.
• School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
• Mil Med. 2022 Aug 25; 187 (9-10): e1225-e1229.

IntroductionMedical school leaders are seeking strategies to increase the diversity of their student populations. Post-baccalaureate premedical (PBPM) programs are one such pipeline that has supported diversity in medicine. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Uniformed Services University's (USU's) PBPM program (the Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program, EMDP2) to determine how well it prepares its learners for the School of Medicine (SOM).Materials And MethodsThe National Board of Medical Examiners Clinical Science Subject Examination scores of EMDP2 learners from the SOM classes of 2020-2023 were compared to those of four similarly sized cohorts of their peers that varied by age and prior military service.ResultsWe found that the performance of program graduates was comparable to their peers who followed more traditional and other alternative preparatory paths.ConclusionsThe EMDP2 appears to prepare medical students on a par with their non-EMDP2 peers. The EMDP2 contributes to USU's commitment to train physicians who represent the nation and its citizens by making medical education available to enlisted service members, a population that closely mirrors the diversity of the nation.Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States 2021. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.

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