Multilingualism Among First-Year Resident Physicians

Pilar Ortega; Montserrat Tijerina; Rahardhika Utama; Kenji Yamazaki; Sean O Hogan; Lisa C Diamond; Muveddet Harris

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.42587

Multilingualism Among First-Year Resident Physicians

JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Nov 3;8(11):e2542587. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.42587.

Authors

Pilar Ortega^{1

2}, Montserrat Tijerina³, Rahardhika Utama⁴, Kenji Yamazaki⁴, Sean O Hogan⁴, Lisa C Diamond⁵, Muveddet Harris⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.
³ Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
⁴ Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois.
⁵ Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service, Hospital Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study characterizes the non–English language proficiency of postgraduate year-1 resident physicians and compares resident physicians languages with population language needs.

Grants and funding

P30 CA008748/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States