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Acceptance into medical school and racial discrimination

^a Department of General Practice, University of Manchester, Rusholme Health Centre, Manchester M14 5NP, ^b House of Commons, London, ^c BMJ, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR

Correspondence to: Dr Esmail.

For several years the Universities and Colleges Admission Service has monitored the ethnic group of applicants to universities in the United Kingdom. We investigated the acceptance rates to medical school of applicants according to their ethnic group.

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We obtained permission from the deans of all medical schools in the United Kingdom to analyse the data from the Universities and Colleges Admission Service on candidates who applied and were accepted for places in 1992. We classified candidates as belonging to an ethnic minority group when they identified themselves as being Chinese, Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, Afro-Caribbean, or black. Candidates who did not provide information on their ethnic origin and those from overseas were excluded from the analysis. Applicants were stratified according to score at A level (30-26 or 25 . . . [Full text of this article]

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