Changing the Face of Medicine in Minnesota

“You can’t be what you can’t see.” – Verna Thornton, MD, MMA Foundation board member; Changing the Face of Medicine chairperson; & co-chair of MMA Barriers to Workforce Diversification in Physician Education, Training and Licensure Task Force 

We know diversity in medicine is about more than fairness. Studies show patients who share the same racial or ethnic background as their physician report higher levels of trust and satisfaction. 

This is about a lot more than fairness. 

Diversity in medicine helps ensure all backgrounds, beliefs, ethnicities, and perspectives are adequately represented in the medical field. It’s about providing the best possible care for all patients and ensuring we are taking steps to be successful in eliminating Minnesota’s troubling health disparities. It’s about what do to give every individual in every community the same opportunity for health. 

This is important work we will accomplish together.  Please join us as a partner in this work. 

The Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) is committed to changing the face of medicine to make medicine more diverse. Now, its Foundation has Changing the Face of Medicine, a dedicated fund that supports initiatives that show promise to tear down the barriers that stand in the way of too many whose dream is to become a physician.  

Changing the face of medicine is a tall order. We need your help today to award more MCAT scholarship grants to Minnesota undergraduate students who come from Black, Indigenous, and other backgrounds underrepresented in medicine and support more opportunities to expose students to careers in medicine. Please join us.