Race and surgical residency: Results from a national survey of 4339 US general surgery residents

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 257, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 782-787

  Wong, Risa L ^a   Sullivan, Michael C ^a   Yeo, Heather L ^b   Roman, Sanziana A ^d   Bell, Richard H ^c   Sosa, Julie A ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

minority residents; NEARS; race and ethnicity; residency experience; surgery residents; surgical residency; training expectations

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENERAL SURGERY; GENERAL SURGERY RESIDENT; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARRIAGE; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SURGICAL TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875211246     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318269d2d0     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Butler PD, Longaker MT, Britt LD, et al. Major deficit in the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons persists. Ann Surg. 2008;248: 704-711.
2. Heron SL, Lovell EO, Wang E, et al. Promoting diversity in emergency medicine: summary recommendations from the 2008 Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) Academic Assembly Diversity Workgroup. Acad Emerg Med. 2009;16:450-453.
3. Day CS, Lage DE, Ahn CS, et al. Diversity based on race, ethnicity, and sex between academic orthopaedic surgery and other specialties: a comparative study. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2011;92:2328-2335.
4. An overview: race and Hispanic Origin and the 2010 Census. US Census BureauWeb site.March 2011.Available at: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/ briefs/c2010br-02.pdf. Accessed August 9, 2011.
5. Castillo-Page L. Diversity in the Physician Workforce: Facts & Figures 2010. Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Colleges; 2010.
6. Templeton K, Wood VJ, Haynes R, et al. Women and minorities in orthopaedic residency programs. J AmAcadOrthop Surg. 2007;15(suppl 1):S37-S41.
7. MankinHJ. Diversity in orthopaedics. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1999;362:85-87.
8. Jimenez RL. Barriers to minorities in the orthopaedic profession. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1999;362:44-50.
9. Yeo H, Viola K, Berg D, et al. Attitudes, training experiences, and professional expectations of US general surgery residents: a national survey. JAMA. 2009;302:1301-1308.
10. Baldwin DC Jr, Daugherty SR, Rowley BD. Racial and ethnic discrimination during residency: results of a national survey. Acad Med. 1994;69(suppl):S19- S21.
11. Liebschutz JM, Darko GO, Finley EP, et al. In the minority: black physicians in residency and their experiences. J Natl Med Assoc. 2006;98: 1441-1448.
12. Bright CM, Duefield CA, Stone VE. Perceived barriers and biases in the medical education experience by gender and race. J Natl Med Assoc. 1998;90: 681-688.
13. Nunez-Smith M, Curry LA, Bigby J, et al. Impact of race on the professional lives of physicians of African descent. Ann Intern Med. 2007;146:45-51.
14. Nunez-Smith M, Pilgrim N, Wynia M, et al. Race/ethnicity and workplace discrimination: results of a national survey of physicians. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24:1198-1204.
15. Pololi L, Cooper LA, Carr P. Race, disadvantage and faculty experiences in academic medicine. J Gen InternMed. 2010;25:1363-1369.
16. Bucholz EM, Sue GR, Yeo H, et al. Our trainees' confidence: results from a national survey of 4136 US general surgery residents. Arch Surg. 2011;146:907-914.
17. Ruggles S. The origins of African-American family structure. Am Sociol Rev. 1994;59:136-151.
18. Julian TW, McKenry PC, McKelvey MW. Cultural variations in parenting: perceptions of Caucasian, African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American parents. Fam Relat. 1994;43:30-37.
19. Frierson HT Jr. Black medical students' perceptions of the academic environment and of faculty and peer interactions. J NatlMed Assoc. 1987;79:737-743.
20. Yeo H, Bucholz E, Ann Sosa J, et al. A national study of attrition in general surgery training: which residents leave and where do they go? Ann Surg. 2010;252:529-534; discussion 534-536.