在学术机构的代表性不足的少数民族和女性泌尿科医生中提供补助资金
Simon White1, David Tella1, Bahrom Ostad1
1Department of Urology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
The Canadian journal of urology
|February 24, 2024
概括
国家卫生研究院 (NIH) 在泌尿病学方面的资助有利于更高层次的机构和更高学术等级的教师. 在这项分析中,资金差异与性别没有显著的关联,或在医学地位中代表性不足.
科学领域:
- 泌尿器科 泌尿器科 泌尿器科 泌尿器科
- 医学研究融资 医学研究融资
- 健康 公平 卫生 公平
背景情况:
- 泌尿病学在过去十年中经历了资助资金的下降.
- 人们对潜在的资金差异存在担忧,这些差异与泌尿病学学院缺乏性别和种族多样性有关.
- 这项研究调查了国家卫生研究院 (NIH) 资助泌尿病学系的种族和性别差异.
研究的目的:
- 分析国家卫生研究院 (NIH) 在泌尿病学方面的资金趋势.
- 鉴定泌尿病学教师之间基于种族和性别的赠款授予的潜在差异.
- 检查教师特征与NIH资助结果之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自145个认可的泌尿器科住院计划的数据,包括教师性别和医学代表不足 (URiM) 状态.
- 查询了NIH研究组合在线报告工具 (1985-2023) 关于泌尿学相关的资助.
- 进行了多变量分析,考虑了URiM状态,性别,实践年限,学术等级和Doximity程序等级.
主要成果:
- 总共分析了2,131名教师;301人获得了793笔总额超过9.93亿美元的赠款.
- 助学金获得者主要是白人 (72.9%) 和亚裔 (21.8%),西班牙裔 (3.0%) 和黑人 (2.1%) 的教师获得的奖项较少.
- 男人获得了89.3%的赠款 (91.7亿美元),而女性获得了10.7% (76.8亿美元).
- 更高的Doximity计划等级和学术等级是获得赠款的重要预测因素 (p < 0.001).
- URiM的地位,性别和多年的实践并不是获得赠款的重要预测因素.
- 学术排名预测了获得的奖学金数量和总资金 (p = 0.04).
结论:
- 美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH) 授予的泌尿病学奖项更有可能用于具有更高学术地位的高等机构的教师.
- 该研究没有发现基于性别或医学地位代表性不足的赠款资金存在重大差异.
- 机构和学术等级似乎是资金成功的决定因素,而不是个人人口因素.
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