The Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program is similar to the MSTP, except that it is for underrepresented minority students. Grants are given to schools whose students are primarily from underrepresented minorities. The schools then distribute the money so selected students can pursue studies leading to Ph.D. and a research career.

Some Key Resources For Minority Candidates:

Association of American Medical Colleges. Minority Students in Medical Education: Facts and Figures IX. Washington, DC: AAMC, 1996, 115 pp. Virtually all of the hard data you could want about how well underrepresented minorities are doing as medcial school applicants, students, practitioners, and academicians. Updated annually.

Career Choices:

Health Professions Opportunities for Minorities. Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, Health Professions Career Opportunity Program, 1600 Ninth Street, Room 441, Sacramento, CA 95814. (Free). This booklet gives a brief overview of the various careers open in the health care field.

Journal for Minority Medical Students focuses on the needs and concerns of minority medical students. Its annual Keepsake edition (see below) is a distillaiton of great information for minority premeds. Copies of the Journal can be obtained from medical school minority affairs offices.

Keepsake:

A Guide for Minority Premed Students (annual). Produced by the Journal for Minority Medical Students, it provides a good overview of the premed and medical school experience from the minority student's viewpoint. It also contains up-to-date addressses for summer and other special programs.

Minorities in Medicine:

A Guide for Premedical Students. Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, Health Professions Career Opportunity Program, 1600 Ninth Street, Room 441, Sacramento, CA 95814. (Free). 34 pp. A quick overview of the entire process of becoming a physician.

Minority Student Opportunities in the United States Medical Schools. Washington, DC: AAMC, (Annual), 287 pp. This book lists the minority affairs contact person at each U.S. medical school, and information about each school's programs for minority students, including recruitment, admission requirements, academic and financial aid, and summer enrichment programs. It also contains detailed, school-specific figures of the numbers of underrepresented minority students who applied, were accepted, began classes, and are in each class. These numbers are broken down by gender and state of residence.

Project 3000 by 2000: Progress to Date. Washington, DC: AAMC (Annual), 47 pp. This report is an annual update on the AAMC's project to enroll 3,000 minority students by the year 2000. It includes relevant facts concerning minority enrollment in U.S. medical schools.