Declining racial and ethnic representation in clinical academic medicine: A longitudinal study of 16 US medical specialties.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate trends in racial, ethnic, and sex representation at US medical schools across 16 specialties: internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, psychiatry, radiology, anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, neurology, family practice, pathology, emergency medicine, orthopedic surgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and dermatology. Using a novel, Census-derived statistical measure of diversity, the S-score, we quantified the degree of underrepresentation for racial minority groups and female faculty by rank for assistant, associate, and full professors from 1990-2016.

Methods

This longitudinal study of faculty diversity uses data obtained from the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Faculty Roster from US allop

SUBMITTER: Lett E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6239326 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature