By Press release submission |
Jan 23, 2022
Research shows that health outcomes improve when patients see physicians of their own race and ethnicity. But according to 2018 data from the Association of American Medical Colleges, or AAMC, 56.2% of active physicians identify as white, with only 5% identifying as Black or African American and 5.8% as Hispanic (13.4% of the U.S. population identifies as Black or African American and 18.5% identify as Hispanic or Latino).