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...prestigious grant, given to the school’s Minority Faculty Development Program (MFDP) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will fund minority junior faculty research, minority residency recruitment initiatives and train physicians in working with different cultural groups...
Since it was established in 1990, the MFDP has aimed to increase diversity at the residency and faculty level of the medical school by exposing minorities at every age—from grade school to graduate school—to science and medicine...
...MFDP also provides research stipends to current minority members of the faculty...
According to medical school officials, MFDP received the grant because of its proven success in increasing diversity...
...It’s remarkable what’s been accomplished thus far,” said Joan Berns, director of development and communications for MFDP...