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Rebekah Roll (she/her)

14 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read

@AmerMedicalAssn

@AmerMedicalAssn Can you comment on the use of the ATLAS program at #DNRTulane used to discriminate BIPOC applicants from HBCUs?

https://twitter.com/amermedicalassn/status/1360800940866101248

https://twitter.com/amermedicalassn/status/1360740538828341248

It seems that you recently wrote an article suggesting diversifying the resident workforce is important (which it is), but I’m sure the above program is not accomplishing that. What steps are our national orgs taking to address this?

https://twitter.com/amermedicalassn/status/1360740538828341248

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*discriminate against ... sorry, I’m full of typos!

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