Race/ethnicity and success in academic medicine: Findings from a longitudinal multi-institutional study

Academic Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 616-622

  Kaplan, Samantha E ^a   Raj, Anita ^b   Carr, Phyllis L ^c   Terrin, Norma ^d   Breeze, Janis L ^d   Freund, Karen M ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAREER; CLIMATE; COMPENSATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEADERSHIP; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; RACE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SATISFACTION; CAREER MOBILITY; ETHNIC GROUP; INCOME; MINORITY GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

CAREER MOBILITY; EFFICIENCY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PUBLICATIONS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85050361634     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001968     Document Type: Article

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