Socioeconomic Diversity of the Matriculating US Medical Student Body by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex, 2017-2019

Arman A Shahriar; Vikram V Puram; Jonathan M Miller; Varun Sagi; Lorenzo Adolfo Castañón-Gonzalez; Shailendra Prasad; Renée Crichlow

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.2621

Socioeconomic Diversity of the Matriculating US Medical Student Body by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex, 2017-2019

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Mar 1;5(3):e222621. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.2621.

Authors

Arman A Shahriar¹, Vikram V Puram¹, Jonathan M Miller², Varun Sagi¹, Lorenzo Adolfo Castañón-Gonzalez¹, Shailendra Prasad³, Renée Crichlow^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis.
² Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
³ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
⁴ Codman Square Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Family Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This survey study compares the socioeconomic composition of the 2017 to 2019 matriculating medical student body with that of the US population, by self-identified race and ethnicity and by sex.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Black or African American
Ethnicity*
Hispanic or Latino
Humans
Socioeconomic Factors
Students, Medical*