Have each other's back: A peer mentorship framework for ethnically underrepresented in medicine (URiM) residents

With an increasingly diverse patient population, efforts to enhance the ethnic and racial representation of the surgeon workforce are critically important. Unfortunately, ethnic representation in academic surgery is regressively disproportionate with Black and Latino physicians representing 4.7% and 3.1% of surgical residents and 2.9% and 5.6% of surgical faculty, respectively.1 Recognizing that not all US minority groups are underrepresented in the physician workforce, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) coined the terminology ethnically underrepresented in medicine (URiM), amplifying the lack of physicians from Black, Latino, and indigenous backgrounds.

Source: American Journal of Surgery - August 26, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Katherine E. McElroy, Colin A. Martin, Paris D. Butler Tags: My Thoughts / My Surgical Practice Source Type: research