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An Approach To Faculty Development For Underrepresented Minorities In Medicine., Juan Robles, Tanya Anim, Maria Harsha Wusu, Krys E. Foster, Yury Parra, Octavia Amaechi, Kari-Claudia Allen, Jose E. Rodríguez, Kendall M. Campbell, Dmitry Tumin, Judy Washington
An Approach To Faculty Development For Underrepresented Minorities In Medicine., Juan Robles, Tanya Anim, Maria Harsha Wusu, Krys E. Foster, Yury Parra, Octavia Amaechi, Kari-Claudia Allen, Jose E. Rodríguez, Kendall M. Campbell, Dmitry Tumin, Judy Washington
Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers
OBJECTIVES: The diversity of the US physician workforce lags significantly behind the population, and the disparities in academic medicine are even greater, with underrepresented in medicine (URM) physicians accounting for only 6.8% of all US medical school faculty. We describe a "for URM by URM" pilot approach to faculty development for junior URM Family Medicine physicians that targets unique challenges faced by URM faculty.
METHODS: A year-long fellowship was created for junior URM academic clinician faculty with funding through the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Project Fund. Seven junior faculty applied and were accepted to participate in the fellowship, …
Family Medicine Predoctoral Education: 30-Something, Howard K. Rabinowitz
Family Medicine Predoctoral Education: 30-Something, Howard K. Rabinowitz
Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers
From the introduction:
The specialty of family medicine is now more than 30 years old. Fitting for its stage of life, family medicine predoctoral education has achieved appropriate maturity and parity with other core clinical departments and has assumed its role and responsibility in medical education within the academic health center. Of course, this wasn’t always true.