Because human populations increase faster than doctors can be graduated, for every Negro who can obtain a medical degree, there will be ever-growing numbers of his own ethnic group in need of his services. However, the clientele a physician serves is determined only in a limited degree by the racial, religious, or other groups to which he belongs. In some areas these matters are important; in other areas they are not. People will not knowingly trifle with their health. They will go to a doctor in whom they have confidence, whatever his origin. Demonstrated ability and knowledge are what count to them. So today large numbers of Negro physicians, some of them in the deep South, have practices with significant proportions of white patients. There are some well-established and prosperous Negro physicians who have very few Negro patients. It is not at all necessary, therefore, to consider prospects for Negro physicians in the limited terms of racial proportions in the profession and in the population. In the past discriminatory admission policies on the part of many medical institutions and limited facilities on the part of Negro medical schools contributed to limitation of the number of Negro medical graduates. However, today there are not as many well-qualified Negro candidates for admission to medical schools as there are openings in medical schools available to them. The talented Negro student has unlimited horizons, and the task is to develop programs that will make him qualified. Problems center on preparation of the young Negro for medical school, the motivation to select medicine as a career for those qualified, and financial ability to pay for the medical education. As a result of the tremendous social and historical revolution which is taking plaee in this decade, especially pertaining to medical education, it is hoped that the time is upon us when no student of proved ability and character need shy away from the pursuit of medicine because of racial or financial barriers.