Why 🦖 PublicHealthOversight picked: The Trump administration’s investigations and attacks on diversity initiatives have left medical schools facing a tough choice as they consider how to select incoming classes: stick with policies they see as core to their mission or risk federal funding.

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  This is about how investigations into diversity initiatives by the Trump administration impacted medical school admissions.

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