Strategies for recruiting underrepresented in medicine and sexual and gender minority students to emergency medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite having well-described benefits, diversifying the physician workforce has been an ongoing challenge. Within emergency medicine (EM), multiple professional organizations have identified expanding diversity and inclusion as top priorities. The following is a description of an interactive session held at the SAEM annual meeting addressing recruitment strategies for underrepresented in medicine (URiM) and sexual and gender minority (SGM) students into EM.

Methods

During the session, the authors provided an overview of the current state of diversity in EM. In the small-group portion of the session, a facilitator helped characterize the challenges programs face in recruiting URiM and SGM students. These challenges were described during three distinct phases of th

SUBMITTER: Wilson LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10294219 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature