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Declining racial and ethnic representation in clinical academic medicine: A longitudinal study of 16 US medical specialties

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  • Lanair Amaad Lett
  • Whitney U Orji
  • Ronnie Sebro

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Objective: To evaluate trends in racial, ethnic, and sex representation at US medical schools across 16 specialties: internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, psychiatry, radiology, anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, neurology, family practice, pathology, emergency medicine, orthopedic surgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and dermatology. Using a novel, Census-derived statistical measure of diversity, the S-score, we quantified the degree of underrepresentation for racial minority groups and female faculty by rank for assistant, associate, and full professors from 1990–2016. Methods: This longitudinal study of faculty diversity uses data obtained from the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Faculty Roster from US allopathic medical schools. The proportion of professors of racial minority groups and female faculty by rank was compared to the US population based on data from the US Census Bureau. The Roster includes data on 52,939 clinical medical faculty in 1990, and 129,545 in 2016, at the assistant professor level or higher. Results: Blacks and Hispanics showed statistically significant trends (p

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  • Lanair Amaad Lett & Whitney U Orji & Ronnie Sebro, 2018. "Declining racial and ethnic representation in clinical academic medicine: A longitudinal study of 16 US medical specialties," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(11), pages 1-21, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0207274
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207274
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