Institutional Variability in Representation of Women and Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups Among Medical School Faculty.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Bolstering the ranks of women and underrepresented groups in medicine (URM) among medical faculty can help address ongoing health care disparities and therefore constitutes a critical public health need. There are increasing proportions of URM faculty, but comparisons of these changes with shifts in regional populations are lacking.

Objective

To quantify the representation of women and URM and assess changes and variability in representation by individual US medical schools.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cross-sectional study assessed US medical school faculty rosters for women and URM, including American Indian and Alaska Native, Black, Hispanic, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander faculty. US allopathic medical schools par

SUBMITTER: Yoo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857368 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature