Covid, inflation, and Supreme Court blamed for steep drop in Native American medical school enrollment
Native American leaders were taken aback to see 22% fewer American Indian or Alaska Native medical students enrolled last year.
The tiny number of Indigenous students in U.S. medical schools has long been a concern, but Native American medical leaders were taken aback to see 22% fewer American Indian or Alaska Native students had enrolled last year when numbers were released in January.
“It’s pathetic, isn’t it? It’s so small,” said Donald Warne, a Lakota physician and co-director of the Center for Indigenous Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as he looked closely at tables showing the size of this year’s incoming group during an interview with STAT: Just 201 out of more than 21,000 students accepted nationwide.
