Minority faculty voices on diversity in academic medicine: Perspectives from one school

Academic Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 781-785

  Mahoney, Megan R ^a,d   Wilson, Elisabeth ^a   Odom, Kara L ^b   Flowers, Loma ^b,c   Adler, Shelley R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Equilibrium Dynamics   (United States)

^d UCSF Campus Box 1365 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; FACULTY PRACTICE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICINE; MINORITY GROUP; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 67651120130     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31817ec002     Document Type: Article

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