Do Current Hiring Processes for Residency and Associate Program Directors Foster Diversity in Educational Leadership?

Residency program and associate program directors (PDs and APDs) hold highly visible educational leadership roles with the power to influence residency training, hospital operations, and the future physician workforce.1,2 They are the leaders of the educational missions of medical schools and teaching hospitals.1 As health care strives to create a more diverse workforce, diversity in leadership positions is foundational to meeting this goal.3-5 Recent publications have described the lack of gender and racial diversity in academic medicine leadership roles.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: AAIM Perspectives Source Type: research