Increasing Diversity in Residency Training Programs

Improving diversity in the healthcare workforce holds promise in improving the health outcomes of our diverse patient population. Attracting, recruiting, and retaining physicians from races and ethnicities that are historically underrepresented in medicine are vital in this effort. Increasing divers...

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Autores principales: Crites, Kundai, Johnson, Jasmine, Scott, Nicole, Shanks, Anthony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Medical Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9286021/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35855255
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25962
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description Improving diversity in the healthcare workforce holds promise in improving the health outcomes of our diverse patient population. Attracting, recruiting, and retaining physicians from races and ethnicities that are historically underrepresented in medicine are vital in this effort. Increasing diversity at the graduate medical education level has the potential to positively reshape our physician personnel. In this editorial, we discuss the current state of diversity-oriented recruitment strategies for residency programs and present opportunities for future efforts.
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spelling pubmed-92860212022-07-18 Increasing Diversity in Residency Training Programs Crites, Kundai Johnson, Jasmine Scott, Nicole Shanks, Anthony Cureus Medical Education Improving diversity in the healthcare workforce holds promise in improving the health outcomes of our diverse patient population. Attracting, recruiting, and retaining physicians from races and ethnicities that are historically underrepresented in medicine are vital in this effort. Increasing diversity at the graduate medical education level has the potential to positively reshape our physician personnel. In this editorial, we discuss the current state of diversity-oriented recruitment strategies for residency programs and present opportunities for future efforts. Cureus 2022-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9286021/ /pubmed/35855255 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25962 Text en Copyright © 2022, Crites et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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