Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J. 2022 Jun 3;18(3):67-77. doi: 10.14797/mdcvj.1080. eCollection 2022.
Diversity in the healthcare workforce enhances access to care, reduces health disparities, and improves quality of care for underserved populations. Yet there is a paucity of women and underrepresented minority physicians in cardiology training programs, and progress toward achieving a diverse cardiology workforce has been slow. Here we review the merits of diversity in health care, the current landscape of the cardiology workforce, barriers to increasing the proportion of women and underrepresented minority cardiologists, and specific strategies that have been proposed to sustain and enhance diversity in cardiology training programs.
医疗保健工作队伍的多样性可改善医疗服务的可及性，减少卫生保健差异，并提高服务不足人群的医疗质量。然而，在心脏病学培训计划中，女性和代表性不足的少数族裔医生人数较少，而且在实现多元化心脏病学工作队伍方面进展缓慢。在这里，我们回顾了医疗保健多样性的优点、心脏病学工作队伍的现状、增加女性和代表性不足的少数族裔心脏病学家比例的障碍，以及为维持和加强心脏病学培训计划的多样性而提出的具体策略。
