Reducing Reliance on Test Scores Reduces Racial Bias in Neurology Residency Recruitment.

CONCLUSIONS: A comprehensive review of applications that minimizes emphasis on USMLE step 1 scores substantially reduced the difference between the percentages of URMs and those of other racial backgrounds who were offered interviews for a Neurology residency. PMID: 30935681 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of the National Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Tags: J Natl Med Assoc Source Type: research