Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 622 W. 168th Street, PH-9, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
J Behav Med. 2019 Feb;42(1):57-66. doi: 10.1007/s10865-018-9983-y. Epub 2019 Mar 1.
Meeting the behavioral medicine research and clinical needs of an increasingly diverse United States population is an issue of national concern. We examine the trends in the demographic representation of the behavioral medicine scientific workforce through an analysis of the training grants funded by National Institutes of Health for the field of behavioral medicine from 1980 to 2018. We report the topics of these training grants, and we depict the demographic representation of the training leaders. We provide the demographic representation of the trainees, and of the first authors of publications reported within those training grants. Finally, we report the topics addressed in these behavioral medicine publications, to determine if topic diversity increased as the behavioral medicine scientific workforce diversified. Visualizations are presented that tell a story of how we have, and have not, advanced representation within the field of behavioral medicine. Best practices for launching future successful behavioral medicine scientists are then presented, to ensure optimal representation and diversification occurs in our workforce, our science, and our delivery of our clinical care.
满足日益多样化的美国人口的行为医学研究和临床需求是一个全国性关注的问题。我们通过分析 1980 年至 2018 年美国国立卫生研究院为行为医学领域资助的培训补助金，研究行为医学科学工作者群体的人口统计学代表性趋势。我们报告了这些培训补助金的主题，并描绘了培训负责人的人口统计学代表性。我们提供了培训学员和培训补助金中报告的出版物的第一作者的人口统计学代表性。最后，我们报告了这些行为医学出版物所涉及的主题，以确定随着行为医学科学工作者群体的多样化，主题多样性是否有所增加。我们提供了可视化的结果，讲述了我们在行为医学领域内如何以及如何没有推进代表性的故事。然后提出了未来成功培养行为医学科学家的最佳实践，以确保我们的劳动力、科学和临床护理的多样性得到最佳体现。
