Representation of Asian American Populations in Medical School Curricula.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite being one of the fastest-growing populations in the US, the Asian American population is often misrepresented in and omitted from health research and policy debate. There is a current lack of understanding of how Asian American populations are portrayed in medical school curricula.

Objective

To assess how Asian American populations and their subgroups are represented in medical school curricula.

Design, setting, and participants

In this qualitative study, the content of 632 lectures from all 19 courses of the preclinical curriculum at a single US institution from the academic year 2020 to 2021 was analyzed to identify and characterize unique mentions of race and ethnicity as well as granular ethnicity. Among the 632 lectures, we identified 256 nonre

SUBMITTER: Park PSU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9508660 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature