End of affirmative action makes it harder for medical schools to fix community health inequities

“We get 10,000 applications a year,” says Jeff SooHoo, MD, MBA, associate professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and who oversees admissions for the CU School of Medicine. “There are thousands of people in that applicant pool that could successfully navigate our medical school, and that would be great physicians, but we have a class of 184.”