Arkansas Code Title 6. Education § 6-5-802. Intent--Findings

(2)(A) Nationally, African-Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and mainland Puerto Ricans make up twenty-five percent (25%) of the United States population.

(B) However, racial and ethnic minority students make up less than eight percent (8%) of practicing physicians and less than five percent (5%) of medical, pharmacy, and nursing school faculties;

(A) Practicing physicians in Arkansas, seven thousand eight hundred eighty-nine (7,889);

(B) Practicing African-American physicians in Arkansas, one hundred fifty (150) or one and nine-tenths percent (1.9%) of Arkansas practicing physicians;

(C) An Arkansas majority physician-to-patient ratio of one (1) majority physician to five hundred seventy (570) persons;

(D) An Arkansas minority physician-to-patient ratio of one (1) physician to three thousand one hundred twenty-five (3,125) persons;

(E) A national physician-to-patient ratio of one (1) physician to five hundred twenty (520) persons; and

(F) Most minority physicians practice in underserved areas; and