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Pipeline Programs Try to Steer Minority Students to Careers in Medicine

11/05/2016 12:37pm | 7050 views

By his junior year in high school, Xavier Shackelford was a good student with a vague idea that he wanted to be a doctor. But few people from his small, rural Arkansas town considered medicine as a possible career.

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Wall Street Journal

WSJ online coverage of breaking news and current headlines from the US and around the world.