Trends in Racial, Ethnic, and Sex Representation Among Surgical Faculty Members and Medical Students in the US, 2011-2020

Alice Yunzi L Yu; Yoshiko Iwai; Samantha M Thomas; Georgia M Beasley; Ranjan Sudan; Oluwadamilola M Fayanju

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2021.4904

Trends in Racial, Ethnic, and Sex Representation Among Surgical Faculty Members and Medical Students in the US, 2011-2020

JAMA Surg. 2021 Dec 1;156(12):1177-1179. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2021.4904.

Authors

Alice Yunzi L Yu¹, Yoshiko Iwai², Samantha M Thomas³, Georgia M Beasley⁴, Ranjan Sudan⁴, Oluwadamilola M Fayanju^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
² University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill.
³ Biostatistics Shared Resource Core, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, North Carolina.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
⁵ Now with Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁶ Now with Rena Rowan Breast Center, Abramson Cancer Center, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁷ Now with Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Abstract

This cohort study uses existing data on race, ethnicity, and sex among US surgical faculty members and medical students to identify changes between 2011 and 2020.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Ethnic and Racial Minorities*
Faculty, Medical*
Female
Humans
Male
Sex Factors
Students, Medical*
Surgeons*
United States

Grants and funding

K08 CA241390/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States