Trends in Internal Medicine Faculty by Sex and Race/Ethnicity, 1980-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Increasing diversity in the physician workforce is a fulcrum for reducing health disparities. Efforts to increase the diversity in the internal medicine (IM) workforce may improve health equity among an increasingly diverse population with increasing prevalence of chronic disease.

Objectives

To assess diversity trends in the academic IM workforce and evaluate how well these trends reflected medical student diversity and the changing demographic composition of the general population.

Design, setting, and participants

This secondary analysis of a cross-sectional study analyzed data from January 1, 1980, to December 31, 2018, from the Association of American Medical Colleges Faculty Roster and Applicant Matriculant File, which capture full-time US medical scho

SUBMITTER: Ogunwole SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7489836 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature