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Morris DB, Gruppuso PA, McGee HA, et al. Diversity of the National Medical Student Body - Four Decades of Inequities. N Engl J Med. 2021;384(17):1661-1668doi: 10.1056/NEJMsr2028487.
Morris, D. B., Gruppuso, P. A., McGee, H. A., Murillo, A. L., Grover, A., & Adashi, E. Y. (2021). Diversity of the National Medical Student Body - Four Decades of Inequities. The New England journal of medicine, 384(17), 1661-1668. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsr2028487
Morris, Devin B, et al. "Diversity of the National Medical Student Body - Four Decades of Inequities." The New England journal of medicine vol. 384,17 (2021): 1661-1668. doi: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsr2028487
Morris DB, Gruppuso PA, McGee HA, Murillo AL, Grover A, Adashi EY. Diversity of the National Medical Student Body - Four Decades of Inequities. N Engl J Med. 2021 Apr 29;384(17):1661-1668. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsr2028487. PMID: 33913645.
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N Engl J Med. 2021 Apr 29;384(17):1661-1668. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsr2028487.

Diversity of the National Medical Student Body - Four Decades of Inequities.

The New England journal of medicine

Devin B Morris, Philip A Gruppuso, Heather A McGee, Anarina L Murillo, Atul Grover, Eli Y Adashi

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  1. From the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI (D.B.M., P.A.G., H.A.M., A.L.M., E.Y.A.); and the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC (A.G.).

PMID: 33913645 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr2028487

Abstract

A racially and ethnically diverse health care workforce remains a distant goal, the attainment of which is contingent on the inclusivity of the national medical student body. We examined the diversity of medical school applicants and enrollees over the past four decades with an eye toward assessing the progress made. Data on the gender and race or ethnic group of enrollees in all medical doctorate degree-granting U.S. medical schools from 1978 through 2019 were examined. The percentage of female enrollees doubled during this period, and women now constitute more than half the national medical student body. This upturn has been attributed largely to an increase by a factor of 12 in the enrollment of Asian women. The corresponding decrease in the percentage of male enrollees, most notably White men, was offset by an increase by a factor of approximately 5 in the enrollment of Asian men. The percentages of enrollees from Black, Hispanic, and other racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in medicine remain well below the percentages of these groups in the national Census.

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