A.S. Cifu is professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
C. Dorsey is assistant professor, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Acad Med. 2020 Dec;95(12S Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments):S136-S138. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003693.
Recent data suggest that students from population groups that have been underrepresented in medicine are disproportionately excluded from admission into the national medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA). This finding, in combination with increasing concerns about bias in medical student assessment, has led some medical schools to reexamine their AΩA selection process and/or their relationship with the organization. The Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago formed a task force to study the schools process of choosing students for recognition and to make recommendations regarding this issue.
最近的数据表明,在医学领域代表性不足的群体中的学生,被不成比例地排除在全国医学荣誉学会 Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) 的录取范围之外。这一发现,加上对医学生评估中存在偏见的担忧日益增加,促使一些医学院重新审视其 AΩA 选拔过程和/或与该组织的关系。芝加哥大学普利兹克医学院成立了一个特别工作组,研究该校选拔学生认可的过程,并就这一问题提出建议。