Differences In Debt Among Postgraduate Medical Residents By Self-Designated Race And Ethnicity, 2014-19.

ABSTRACT: The US physician workforce does not reflect the racial and ethnic makeup of the country's population, despite efforts to promote diversity. Becoming a physician requires significant time and financial investment, and populations that are underrepresented in medicine have also been excluded from building wealth. Understanding the differential burden of debt by race and ethnicity may inform strategies to improve workforce diversity. We used 2014-19 data on postgraduate resident trainees from the Association of American Medical Colleges to examine the association between race and ethnicity and debt independent of other demographics and residency characteristics. Black trainees were significantly more likely to have every type of debt than the overall sample and all other racial and ethnic gro

SUBMITTER: Holaday LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9954659 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature