Residency Program Diversity Recruitment and Education: Survey of Efforts and Barriers to Implementation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Examine underrepresented minority (URM) recruitment and diversity education initiatives provided by residency programs in ophthalmology and other specialties, and identify means to support programs as they work to enhance diversity efforts.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Multi-center survey of residency program leadership of the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, University of Utah, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Participants

Residency program leadership (i.e., residency program directors and associate residency program directors) RESULTS: Our survey response rate was 34% (63/188); 56% percent of responses were from ophthalmology and 44% were from other specialties. Across all specialt

SUBMITTER: Aguwa UT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9064934 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature