Differences in Narrative Language in Evaluations of Medical Students by Gender and Under-represented Minority Status.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In varied educational settings, narrative evaluations have revealed systematic and deleterious differences in language describing women and those underrepresented in their fields. In medicine, limited qualitative studies show differences in narrative language by gender and under-represented minority (URM) status.

Objective

To identify and enumerate text descriptors in a database of medical student evaluations using natural language processing, and identify differences by gender and URM status in descriptions.

Design

An observational study of core clerkship evaluations of third-year medical students, including data on student gender, URM status, clerkship grade, and specialty.

Participants

A total of 87,922 clerkship evaluations from core clinical rot

SUBMITTER: Rojek AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6502922 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature