Diversity in Medicine
Commentary
The whitest specialty: Bias
Most physicians, we believed, consider themselves to be, and strive to be, humane, compassionate, and egalitarian caregivers. The answer then...
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Why do clinical trials still underrepresent minority groups?
The FDA wants researchers conducting clinical trials to submit a plan on how they will diversify participant pools. While the effort to undo...
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More medical schools build training in transgender care
Students and faculty identify gaps, such as a severe shortage of transgender instructors, and expand goals for training.
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Racial disparities seen in pediatric postoperative mortality rates
The results showed that postoperative mortality rates were significantly higher in Black children in the highest income category, compared with...
From the Journals
Early in career, female academic docs earn less than males: study
The earning potential of women in most specialties is 10% less than their male colleagues over the course of the first 10 years of their careers...
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Medicaid implements waivers for some clinical trial coverage
This year, the CMS will help implement a mandate for Medicaid coverage of costs associated with clinical trial participation, a move expected to...
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Black young adults: Remember this when facing discrimination
Discrimination has shifted form from more overt forms of discrimination to less obvious ...
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Pandemic stresses harder on physician moms than physician dads: Study
Study results suggest that the pandemic has increased gender disparity and added disproportionately to the burden of female physicians.
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Detransitioners received poor evaluation when transitioning
The reasons for detransitioning were varied, and many had more than one reason.
Conference Coverage
Racial disparities found in treatment of tubal pregnancies
Black and Latina women are 50% less likely to undergo a minimally invasive procedure to treat ectopic pregnancy compared with their White peers,...
From the Journals
U.S. study finds racial, gender differences in surgical treatment of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
Black and Hispanic males are more often treated with wide local excision than with Mohs surgery for dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans.