Operation Diversify Plastic Surgery: An Innovative Strategy to Increase Diversity in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

ABSTRACT: Healthcare disparities remain a significant problem facing the US healthcare system with recent evidence of persistent racial and ethnic disparities especially among patients from minority backgrounds. Recent studies have documented advantages to a racially and ethnically diverse surgical workforce such as higher patient satisfaction scores, superior patient compliance with physician recommendations, and increased participation in clinical research studies by minority patients. In plastic and reconstructive surgery (PRS), there is a noted deficit among residents and faculty that come from ethnically underrepresented in medicine (URiM) backgrounds despite recent efforts to increase diversity in PRS surgeons. URiM medical students from three of the four historically Black medical universitie

SUBMITTER: Downer MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10484363 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature