Diversity and Inclusion in the Academic Medicine Workforce: Encouraging Medical Students and Residents to Consider Academic Careers

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Maria Soto-GreeneValerie Romero-Leggott

Abstract

The expansion of medical schools and increased faculty attrition call for heightened efforts to encourage medical students and residents to consider academic careers. As diversity serves as a driver of institutional excellence, special attention to the ongoing underrepresentation of certain groups in academia, such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals, is warranted. We developed a 90-minute workshop to raise medical student and resident awareness of academic medicine careers, and the benefits and challenges of having a diverse faculty. The workshop consists of a didactic PowerPoint presentation and a reflection exercise, shared in small- and large-group format, discussing facilitators and barriers to pursuing academia. The workshop was implemented at nine regional conferences. There were 165 diverse participants. In comparing pre- and postworkshop responses of learners using the sample t test, there was a statistically significant increase in confidence to succeed in academic medicine given learners' gender (2.69 vs. 3.34, p < .001), race and ethnicity (2.53 vs. 3.24, p < .001), or sexual orientation (3.04 vs. 3.42, p < .001). Approximately 95% of learners felt that eac...Continue Reading

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