CommonSpirit partners with Morehouse to train Black physicians
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Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health is partnering with historically Black Morehouse School of Medicine to establish medical school campuses and graduate medical education programs across the country in an effort to increase the number of minority physicians.
The organizations announced on Wednesday plans to commit $21 million over the next two years as part of a 10-year, $100 million initiative to develop a joint undergraduate and graduate medical education program to train a minimum of 300 additional clinicians from historically underrepresented communities.
CommonSpirit Health CEO Lloyd Dean said a key motivation for the collaboration with Morehouse was to leverage the success the historically Black medical school has had in producing Black physicians who pursue careers in primary care. Of the 100 medical students Morehouse enrolls each year, an estimated 70% go on to practice medicine in an