Recruiting a Diverse Cardiology Physician Workforce.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding trends in the representation of women and individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations in cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular subspecialty fellowships is essential to improving the diversity of the cardiology workforce.

Objective

To examine changes in the representation of women and underrepresented individuals in cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular subspecialty fellowships over time.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study of trainee sex and race and ethnicity in various training programs from 2008 to 2022 used data from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's publicly available online source. Participants included all residents, internal medicine residents, general surger

SUBMITTER: Snow SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10809141 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature