Racial disparities in medical student membership in the alpha omega alpha honor society

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 659-665

  Boatright, Dowin ^a,b   Ross, David ^a   O'Connor, Patrick ^a   Moore, Edward ^c   Nunez Smith, Marcella ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program   (United States)

^c CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL WELFARE; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROFESSIONALISM; RACISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROFESSIONALISM; RACISM; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85018955297     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.9623     Document Type: Article

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