国家MD-PhD计划成果研究:黑人和西班牙裔毕业生所遵循的职业道路
Myles H Akabas1, Lawrence F Brass2
1Neuroscience and Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
JCI insight
|May 8, 2024
概括
黑人医学博士学位毕业生面临着独特的职业挑战,包括更长的毕业时间和更低的学术职业和NIH资助率,需要在所有培训阶段进行干预.
科学领域:
- 医学教育 医学教育
- 医生科学家培训 医生科学家培训
- 健康差异 在健康上的差异
背景情况:
- 与西班牙裔和在医学 (非UIM) 学生中不代表的学生相比,在MD-PhD课程中,身为黑人身份的学生的退学率更高.
- 了解黑人毕业生的职业发展轨迹对于改善医生科学家培训的多样性至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 用国家纵向数据分析黑人MD-PhD毕业生的职业成果.
- 确定黑人和非UIM毕业生之间的职业道路,研究生产力和资金获取方面的差异.
主要方法:
- 分析了来自全国MD-PhD计划成果研究的数据,追踪了超过10,000名毕业生.
- 毕业时间的比较,职业选择 (学术界与非学术界),居住选择和研究生产力指标 (赠款奖,K-to-R转换率).
主要成果:
- 黑人毕业生的毕业时间略长,并且比非UIM毕业生更有可能进入非学术实践或特定专业 (外科,内科).
- 研究努力率和指导奖项在学术界的种族群体中是相似的.
- 黑人和西班牙裔毕业生报告NIH研究资助率较低,黑人校友显示NIH职业发展到研究项目资助 (K-to-R) 转换率较低.
结论:
- 职业发展轨迹的差异表明,在MD-PhD培训前,期间和之后的经历对黑人毕业生的影响.
- 需要在多个阶段采取可行的干预措施来解决差异,并支持黑人医生科学家.
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