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Minority Groups - Education
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Definition of 'Minority Groups'A subgroup having special characteristics within a larger group, often bound together by special ties which distinguish it from the larger group. Common names: Minority Groups; Group, Minority; Groups, Minority; Minority Group |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Encouraging minority scientists.
30 Aug 2009 
The research community needs to increase the number of minority students who choose scientific research ... Read more...
30 Jul 2009 PURPOSE: Ethnic minority faculty members are vastly underrepresented in academia. Yet, the presence of these individuals in academic institutions is crucial, particularly because their professional endeavors often target issues of health ... Read more...
29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVES: To investigate differences in reported pain and pain treatment utilization (use of over-the-counter and prescription pain medications, seeing a pain specialist, and use of complementary and alternative medicine) among minorities and ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Minority Groups - Education'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Program offers disadvantaged teens a gateway to health and science careers.
31 Aug 2009 - Encouraging minority scientists. 30 Aug 2009
- Reducing health disparities through a culturally centered mentorship program for minority faculty: the Southwest Addictions Research Group (SARG) experience. 30 Jul 2009
- Self-reported pain and utilization of pain treatment between minorities and nonminorities in the United States. 29 Jun 2009
- U.S. higher education. Minority retention rates in science are sore spot for most universities. 10 Jun 2009
- How leaky is the health career pipeline? Minority student achievement in college gateway courses. 30 May 2009
- A multimedia educational program that increases science achievement among inner-city non-Asian minority middle-school students. 30 May 2009
- Building nursing research capacity to address health disparities: engaging minority baccalaureate and master's students. 29 Apr 2009
- Bridges to the Doctorate: mentored transition to successful completion of doctoral study for underrepresented minorities in nursing science. 29 Apr 2009
- Recursive processes in self-affirmation: intervening to close the minority achievement gap. 15 Apr 2009
- Creating diversity in a baccalaureate nursing program: a case study.
10 Apr 2009 - Racial microaggressions and difficult dialogues on race in the classroom. 30 Mar 2009
- The perceived threat of SARS and its impact on precautionary actions and adverse consequences: a qualitative study among Chinese communities in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. 8 Mar 2009
- The Dental Pipeline program's impact on access disparities and student diversity. 27 Feb 2009
- A multifaceted mentoring model for minority researchers to address HIV health disparities. 24 Feb 2009
- The Pipeline program at Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry. 30 Jan 2009
- Introduction to case studies of the Pipeline programs at fourteen U.S. dental schools. 30 Jan 2009
- Afterword to the evaluating the Dental Pipeline Program Report: the California Dental Pipeline Program, Phase II. 30 Jan 2009
- Recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority and low-income dental students: effects of the Pipeline program. 30 Jan 2009
- Introduction to the cross-site comparisons and multivariable analyses of the Dental Pipeline program. 30 Jan 2009
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Technical information about 'Minority Groups'
Definition: A subgroup having special characteristics within a larger group, often bound together by special ties which distinguish it from the larger group.
Descriptor UI: D008913
Alternative terms: Minority Groups; Group, Minority; Groups, Minority; Minority Group;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;
Tree Number: I01.880.371;
History Note: 68
Technical Notes: IM; coord with specific minority group (IM) & geog