Early Initiative of Structured Mentoring and Research for Social Disadvantage Trainees to Increase Diversity and Inclusion among Clinician Scientists.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a significant lag in integrating ethnically diverse healthcare trainees as clinician scientists. Although this gap is acknowledged, it is mostly focused physician scientists with a marked lag in dental scientists and the other healthcare fields such as the physician assistant program. We report on the outcome of three cohorts of underserved and economically disadvantaged trainees from a National Institute of Health Heart and Lung Blood Institute R25 summer training program with participants from four Rutgers Health Science schools.

Objective

The goal was to support inclusivity within clinician scientist workforce through career development and education.

Methods

We tested the hypothesis that early formal training with structured mentoring, research

SUBMITTER: Baquerizo HX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11614190 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature