Recruitment and training of minority health care managers: a case study

This paper describes a cooperative learning model that uses six critical points of intervention at which learning can be facilitated for minority students. These six points were identified in the Health Career Opportunity Program (HCOP). The HCOP initiative model is used because it has been demonstrated that this strategy has been successful in increasing the number of minority health care professionals. The paper is presented in two parts. The first part gives an overview of the six critical points of intervention. The recommendations presented will focus on incorporating mechanisms that can facilitate the learning and achievement of minority students once they have been identified and admitted. The second part presents a case study of how these intervention strategies were implemented in the Health Services Administration Program at Meharry Medical College between the years of 1989 through 1993.