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Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers

2021

Underrepresented minority faculty

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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 Sep 2021

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, …