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Deans, department heads and division chiefs at US medical schools need to examine their promotion procedures to eliminate potentially discriminatory practices. Although African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and mainland Puerto Ricans make up almost 25% of the US population, they account for less than 8% of all practicing physicians. Only 3% of medical school faculty members belong to one of these minority groups. A 1998 study found that white faculty members were three times more likely than black and Hispanic faculty members and twice as likely as Asian faculty members to achieve the rank of full or associate professor.
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According to data from the Annual Medical School Questionnaire of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), revenue supporting programs and activities of the 125 accredited medical schools in the US totaled $36 997 million in 1997-1998. Eighty percent of the revenue came from practice plans, grants and contracts and hospital support. Practice plans collect the fees that doctors on the faculty charge for seeing patients. This accounted for 34% of all revenues. Grants and contracts to do research accounted for 30% of revenues and 15% of the revenues came from the teaching hospital associated with the school.
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The salaries of some medical school faculty are not keeping pace with inflation. Between 1988 and 1998, the actual median clinical faculty salary increased from $101,000 to $150,000, and the actual median basic science faculty salary increased from $52,000 to $78,000. However, after adjusting for inflation, clinical faculty salaries decreased and basic science faculty salaries increased.
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