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Diversity In Osteopathic Medical School Admissions And The Compass Program: An Update, Nadege J. Dady, Steven M. Toplan, Jeffrey R. Gardere, Robin Moore, Lorreen Agandi, Ulcha Fergie Ulysse, Aida Aminpour, Mckensie Gelvin, Jemima Akinsanya, Kenneth J. Steier
Diversity In Osteopathic Medical School Admissions And The Compass Program: An Update, Nadege J. Dady, Steven M. Toplan, Jeffrey R. Gardere, Robin Moore, Lorreen Agandi, Ulcha Fergie Ulysse, Aida Aminpour, Mckensie Gelvin, Jemima Akinsanya, Kenneth J. Steier
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (New York) Publications and Research
In the United States, the 40 colleges of osteopathic medicine and 157 schools of allopathic medicine face challenges in recruiting candidates who are underrepresented in medicine (URiM), and gaps in racial disparity appear to be widening. In this commentary, the authors provide an analysis of the data collected from 8 years of conducting a URiM recruitment and welcoming social events. The event is sponsored by a student special interest group called Creating Osteopathic Minority Physicians Who Achieve Scholastic Success (COMPASS) at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine – New York (TouroCOM-NY). The results of the 8-year data analysis supports the …
Inviting Diverse Participation: The Role Of Student-Generated Questions In Classroom Collaborative Inquiry, Ching-Ching Lin
Inviting Diverse Participation: The Role Of Student-Generated Questions In Classroom Collaborative Inquiry, Ching-Ching Lin
Graduate School of Education Publications and Research
Using questioning and discussion techniques to drive instruction and meet the needs of diverse learners has been at the forefront of the current standards-based reform in the United States, where learning standards are used to determine academic expectations. The general goal of standards-based education is to ensure that students are acquiring the knowledge and skills that are deemed to be essential for their success in higher education and careers (Great Schools Partnership, 2017). From kindergarten to higher education, questioning has been viewed as a multifaceted strategy that animates learning, improves the quality of classroom instruction, and cultivates students’ higher order …