Despite large-scale initiatives to promote workforce diversity in academic medicine, results
have been disheartening, with marginal improvements in some areas and clear regression …

This article describes a program aimed to increase workforce diversity and
underrepresented minority (URM) representation in academic pediatric medicine. The New …

Increasing the number of academic physicians from underrepresented groups in medicine is
a complex problem requiring multiple solutions. Increasing diversity in academic medicine …

Academic pediatrics has notkept pace with the changing demographics in the United States
population and the children and families we serve. By 2020, the majority of children and …

OBJECTIVES: Our objective for this study was to explore the experiences of faculty in
academic pediatrics who are underrepresented minorities (URMs) at 2 urban medical …

Video Abstract A physician workforce that reflects the patient population is associated with
improved patient outcomes and promotes health equity. Notwithstanding, racial and ethnic …

METHODS Repeated cross-sectional study of graduate medical education census data on
self-reported race/ethnicity of pediatric residents and subspecialty fellows from 2007 to …

Compelled by the growing recognition of the burden and harm perpetrated by sustained
inequality and explicit and implicit biases on our patients, trainees, and colleagues, the …

Medicine in the United States has been hampered by a lack of diversity for centuries. Over
the past few decades, greater attention and efforts have been focused on tackling this …

This committee, chaired by Dr Bridgette Jones, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, developed
a mission to “improve the recruitment and success of diverse Children's Mercy faculty and …