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The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of only four predominantly Black medical schools in the United States. Among its illustrious alumni are surgeons general of the United States, medical school presidents, and numerous other highly regarded medical professionals. This book tells the engrossing history of this venerable institution.
The school was founded just after the civil rights era, when major barriers prevented minorities from receiving adequate health care and Black students were underrepresented in predominantly White medical schools. The Morehouse School of Medicine was conceived to address both problems—it was a minority-serving institution educating doctors who would practice in underserved communities.
The school's history involves political maneuvering, skilled leadership, dedication to training African American physicians, and a mission of primary care in disadvantaged communities. Highlighting such influential leaders as former Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, The Morehouse Mystique situates the school in the context of the history of medical education for Blacks and race relations throughout the country. The book features excerpts from personal interviews with prominent African American doctors as well as with former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush, who reveal how local, state, and national politics shaped the development of Black medical schools in the United States.
The story of the Morehouse School of Medicine reflects the turbulent time in which it was founded and the lofty goals and accomplishments of a diverse group of African American leaders. Their tireless efforts in creating this eminent Black institution changed the landscape of medical education and the racial and ethnic makeup of physicians and health care professions.
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It is extraordinarily enjoyable to be able to read and review a book dealing with something that is vitally important to one's own life and experience. This exceptionally well-researched and presented book on the inception and growth of the Morehouse School of Medicine fits that category for me.
When the MSM opened its doors in the summer of 1978, my husband Ray Barreras actually gave the very first lecture to the incoming class. He had been hired to develop a tutorial program because it was perceived that the incoming medical students might need remediation. As it turned out, due to the extreme need for additional opportunities for African American and other minority students to attain a medical education - a situation well documented in this book - a tutorial program as such was not needed. However, as one of the first students, Lonnie Boaz is quoted as saying, "That summer program was taught by Ray Barreras, who was one of the first instructors we met when we got there. It was his personality and attitude that let us know we were there as a family, and we would work to try to get everyone through rather than competing against each other." (p. 124) Though the deep pool of applicants for admission turned out to contain so many highly-qualified individuals that the "high risk" students originally anticipated never became a concern, the book makes it extremely clear that part of the "mystique" which led to the success of this innovative and much-needed school was exactly the sort of personal touch and caring, family-oriented attitude that Boaz cites.
Although the founding dean and first president of Morehouse Medical School, Dr. Louis W.