A review of the evaluation literature on health professions training and enrichment programs for minority/disadvantaged students.
This paper includes the authors' review of the outcome evaluation articles of federal and non-federal training programs to prepare minority/disadvantaged students for entry into health programs as managers and practitioners. It provides information from the senior author's 1987-1993 Health Careers Opportunity Program grant for comparison purposes. The paper makes an argument for the standardization of outcome variables so that cross-program comparisons may be made. Until now, the variables reported in the literature have been very disparate. This paper suggests which kind of training program may have the most chance for success. Finally, it provides information rarely found in the evaluation literature: success rates for different ethnic groups and costs for running such programs. These data are provided for Health Care Administration faculty who could use planning information for similar grant applications.