'URM Candidates Are Encouraged to Apply' A National Study to Identify Effective Strategies to Enhance Racial and Ethnic Faculty Diversity in Academic Departments of Medicine

摘要

Racial and ethnic minorities in the United States experience greater burdens of morbidity and mortality in comparison with people of European descent for nearly every health indicator. For example, the prevalence of diabetes is 6.6% among non-Hispanic whites in comparison with 8.9% among Hispanics and 11.1% among African Americans.1 Racial and ethnic minorities have higher rates, and worse control, of dyslipidemia and hypertension,2'3 and lower rates of preventive health measures such as mammography.4