Perspectives on National Institutes of Health Funding Requirements for Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Medical Scientist Training Program Leadership.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Since 1964, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) MD-PhD program at medical schools across the US to support training physician-scientists. Recent studies have suggested that MSTPs have consistently matriculated more students from racial and ethnic backgrounds historically underrepresented in science than MD-PhD programs without NIH funding; however, the underlying basis for the increased diversity seen in NIH-funded MSTPs is poorly understood.

Objective

To investigate how administrators and faculty perceive the impact of MSTP status on MD-PhD program matriculant racial and ethnic diversity.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study used a positive deviance approach to identify 9 high

SUBMITTER: Ayedun A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10152303 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature