J Natl Med Assoc
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After 10 years of admitting greater numbers of black medical students to North Carolina medical schools, the current study examined perceptions of four classes of black students attending these medical schools. One objective of this study was to gain a sense of how black students perceived the medical school environment. Another objective was to determine those students' levels of negative reactions generated by interactions with faculty and peers. Some of the major findings indicated that black students generally had negative perceptions of the medical school environments, and much of their reported negativism was associated with perceptions of student and white faculty interactions.
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A descriptive epidemiologic study of Chicago's cancer rates during the present decade reveals that the worst cancer mortality rates occur among Chicago's black population. Blacks represent a large percentage of Chicago's total population and a disproportionately high segment of the low socioeconomic group. ⋯ This same trend is being observed nationally; however, only a few studies have been documented. The Chicago Department of Health recognized the magnitude of this problem in 1980 and initiated this ongoing study of cancer deaths in the city in an attempt to improve these rates in this decade.