That figure has risen less than 1% over the past 40 years and is far lower than the 13.4% Black population in the United States.

“It’s an opportunity to showcase our medical students, they have been going all over for these sub specialties, but with the NFL being so high profile, and to diversify the (medical) positions in the NFL, it would be great that the doctors treating them are also diverse.”Ī study that examines diversity of the medical student population shows Black medical students comprise only 7.3% of the total in this country.