Racial Inequities in Female Family Physicians Providing Womens Health Procedures

Patient-physician race concordant dyads have been shown to improve patient outcomes; the race and ethnicity of family physicians providing women's health procedures has not been described. Using self-reported data, this analysis highlights the racial disparities in scope of practice; underrepresented in medicine (URiM) females are less likely to perform women's health procedures which may lead to disparities in care received by minority women.

Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - March 11, 2024 Category: Primary Care Authors: Walter, G., Laddha, R., Jetty, A., Jabbarpour, Y., Huffstetler, A. Tags: Policy Brief Source Type: research