Three decades of demographic trends among academic emergency physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe trends in emergency medicine faculty demographics, examining changes in the proportion of historically underrepresented groups including female, Black, and Latinx faculty over time.

Methods

Data from the Association of American Medical Colleges faculty roster (1990-2020) were used to assess the changing demographics of full-time emergency medicine faculty. Descriptive statistics, graphic visualizations, and logistic regression modeling were used to illustrate trends in the proportion of female, Black, and Latinx faculty. Odds ratios (OR) were used to describe the estimated annual rate of change of underrepresented demographic groups.

Results

The number of full-time emergency medicine faculty increased from 214 in 1990 to 5874 in 2020. Female emerge

SUBMITTER: Cleveland Manchanda EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9375047 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature