US Medical Schools Confront Admissions After Affirmative Action

American medical schools are confronting their first major challenge since the US Supreme Court’s June decision to outlaw race-based college admissions.

As medical schools sift through their first round of applications since the ruling, there’s already a nascent response to diminish the impact on the pipeline of future Black doctors.

The National Medical Association, an organization for Black physicians, is raising money for a new scholarship. The Association of American Medical Colleges will get involved in K-12 education for the first time.

Underrepresentation is a long-standing problem: only 5.2% of practicing physicians in the US were Black even before the ruling, ...