Recruitment of Underrepresented in Medicine Applicants to U.S. Internal Medicine Residencies: Results of a National Survey

Racial and ethnic concordance between physicians and patients can improve health care delivery.1 –3 However, the US physician workforce does not adequately reflect the demographic composition of the US population: as of 2018, only 17.1% of physicians self-reported as Asian, 5.8% Hispanic, and 5% Black or African American.4 Such disparities within internal medicine have broad health and societ al repercussions, since internists and other generalists represent frontline providers to the majority of the population seeking health care.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: AAIM Perspectives Source Type: research