Association Between Emergency Medicine Clerkship Diversity Scholarships and Residency Diversity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To improve resident diversity, emergency medicine (EM) residencies across the United States have implemented financial scholarships to attract visiting medical students underrepresented in medicine (URiM). The impact of these scholarships on changes in residency racial and ethnic diversity is currently unknown. In this study, we describe characteristics of these visiting elective scholarships for underrepresented students and evaluate changes in residency racial and ethnic diversity after program implementation.

Methods

From 2018 to 2019, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of EM residency programs with a visiting clerkship rotation scholarship for medical students URiM. Programs were identified for study inclusion using the Society for Academic Emergency Medicin

SUBMITTER: Duong DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8166303 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature