"The lack of diversity in academic medicine is a significant issue that can compromise our patients’ health and the education of our training clinicians. There is a vicious cycle in which there are few black academic physicians, leading to seemingly fewer available mentors for black students, which in turn leads to even less of them pursuing careers in academic medicine. As a medical community at large, it is imperative that we understand the implications of this problem, not just on the black patient population, but on the nation as a whole. Its effects ripple through our economy and finances, public health/disease transmission, and educational infrastructure. Knowing this, it is more important now than ever that we promote diversity in academic medicine and to be more specific, that we encourage students, residents, and fellows to pursue such careers."
Mary Branch is a cardiology fellow.
She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "Analyzing the deficit of African-Americans in academic medicine." (https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/07/analyzing-the-deficit-of-african-americans-in-academic-medicine.html)
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