J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2022 May-Jun;62(3):701-705. doi: 10.1016/j.japh.2022.03.004. Epub 2022 Mar 9.
Due to the effects of structural racism, disproportionately lower numbers of Black, Hispanic or LatinX, American Indian, and Alaska Native students pursue a career in pharmacy and successfully matriculate into the profession. Despite these disparities being present for many years, little progress has been achieved in diversifying the pharmacy profession, resulting in a persistent lack of diversity within pharmacy leadership across employers and pharmacy organizations. Consistent with recent recommendations for improving diversity in pharmacy, the PharmGradWishlist (PGWL) initiative was created as a way for practicing pharmacists and organizations to provide direct financial sponsorship to racially and ethnically minoritized trainees to offset costs incurred during training and during the transition from student to practicing pharmacist. Many of these costs, such as residency and fellowship application fees, job interview travel costs, board exam and licensing fees, and moving expenses, are not typically subsidized by federal student funding. Offsetting these costs is an important way to reduce barriers to entering the profession and postgraduate training, the latter of which may be particularly important in trainees' pursuit of academic and leadership positions in pharmacy. The initial development and advertisement of the initiative occurred through social media and the grassroots efforts of the PGWL team, a group of 10 volunteer pharmacists from across the country, and resulted in generous donations from a small proportion of practicing pharmacists nationwide. It is now time for the profession as a whole to embrace the role of direct sponsorship in improving diversity in the profession. We call upon pharmacists and pharmacy organizations to advocate for and participate in financial sponsorship of racially and ethnically minoritized trainees and pharmacists as a way to increase diversity and promote health equity.
由于结构性种族主义的影响，黑人和西班牙裔或拉丁裔、美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民学生从事药学职业并成功进入该行业的人数比例不成比例地较低。尽管这些差异已经存在多年，但在多元化药学职业方面几乎没有取得进展，导致雇主和药学组织中的药学领导职位仍然缺乏多样性。为了遵循最近改善药学领域多样性的建议，PharmGradWishlist（PGWL）倡议应运而生，这是执业药剂师和组织为少数族裔受训者提供直接经济资助的一种方式，以抵消培训期间以及从学生过渡到执业药剂师期间产生的费用。这些费用中的许多费用，如住院医师和奖学金申请费、求职面试差旅费、董事会考试和执照费以及搬迁费，通常不由联邦学生资金补贴。抵消这些费用是减少进入该行业和研究生培训障碍的重要途径，后者对于受训者在药学领域追求学术和领导职位可能尤为重要。该倡议的最初开发和宣传是通过社交媒体以及 PGWL 团队（来自全国各地的 10 名志愿药剂师）的基层努力进行的，这导致了全国少数执业药剂师的慷慨捐赠。现在，整个行业都需要接受直接赞助在提高专业多样性方面的作用。我们呼吁药剂师和药房组织倡导并参与对少数族裔受训者和药剂师的经济赞助，以此来增加多样性并促进健康公平。
