Editorial Board Q & A: John Paul Sanchez, MD, MPH

John Paul Sanchez, MD, MPH, Assistant Dean, Diversity and Inclusion, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, President, Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians Inc.
Describe your current activities. 
My workweek is split between patient care in the emergency department, leading various diversity and inclusion efforts across the medical school (from high school students to faculty members), overseeing the Community-Engaged Service Learning elective, and research related to diversifying the academic medicine workforce.
What gaps do you see in the current academic medicine scholarship?
Gaps in the current academic medicine scholarship include best practices and evaluations of initiatives and programs to enhance diversity and inclusion in the physician workforce and the academic medicine workforce.
Name two to three seminal Academic Medicine articles that everyone in your field should read.

Kanter SL. What is academic medicine? Acad Med. 2008 Mar;83(3):205-206.  It provides a fundamental definition of academic medicine.
Jeffe DB, Yan Y, Andriole DA. Do research activities during college, medical school, and residency mediate racial/ethnic disparities in full-time faculty appointments at U.S. Medical schools? Acad Med. 2012 Nov;87(11):1582-93. URM medical students who published during medical school were more likely to become full-time faculty appointment. An important finding to increasing URM representation in the a...

Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 17, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Editorial Board Q & A Featured diversity medical education professional identity formation underrepresented minorities Source Type: blogs