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Committee News| September 2022 Moving Forward: 2022 Committee on Professional Diversity's 2nd Virtual Doctors Back to School Program Christine Vo, MD; Christine Vo, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Odmara L. Barreto Chang, MD, PhD Odmara L. Barreto Chang, MD, PhD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor September 2022, Vol. 86, 32–33. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000874272.69789.72 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Christine Vo, Odmara L. Barreto Chang; Moving Forward: 2022 Committee on Professional Diversity's 2nd Virtual Doctors Back to School Program. ASA Monitor 2022; 86:32–33 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000874272.69789.72 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: continuing professional development, teachers June 7, 2022, marked the sixth time the ASA Committee on Professional Diversity (CPD) embarked on community outreach efforts inspired by the American Medical Association's (AMA's) Doctors Back to School™ Program (DBTS) (asamonitor.pub/3AFs5FH). Our primary goal was to reach out to kids from communities with minority populations who are underrepresented in medicine. By promoting interactions between students early in their academic pursuits and health care professionals with similar backgrounds, we hoped to bring to the forefront of their developing minds the message from our first virtual DBTS: “there is potential in you, and we are proof that you, too, can succeed and be part of our health profession” (ASA Monitor 2021;85:32). Why is it imperative for ASA to participate in health care pipeline efforts involving underrepresented minorities? AMA released data showing that “demand for physician services is projected to grow by 138,900 FTEs from 2019-2034... You do not currently have access to this content.
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