In an attempt to nurture a generation of doctors as culturally diverse as the population they serve, the California Academy of Family Physicians is working to attract more ethnic minorities and low-income youth to their profession, the Sacramento Bee reported. The organization's Future Faces of Family Medicine program isn't the only California program designed to diversify the medical field. The newspaper also highlighted the United Health Foundation's Diverse Scholars Initiative, which this year awarded healthcare scholarships to Nancy Rivera, who wants to serve the Latino population in the state's Central Valley, and Tria Vue, whose Hmong parents struggled to understand Western medicine. Doctors from communities like the Central Valley "are most likely to return to them to serve," Michael Rodriguez, M.D., a family physician and professor in UCLA's Department of Family Medicine, told the Bee. "And they have the patients' perspectives, the patients' values in mind." – read the full story from FierceHealthcare