Cariello Paloma F, Figueroa Edgar, Harris Christopher M, Eldridge Donna R, Hooten Melanie, Cuevas Guillermo E, Jones Jessica L, Hightower Maia, Campbell Kendall M, Martineau Mike, Rodríguez José E, Oquendo Luis A
Office of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Student Health Services, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
PRiMER. 2023 Aug 4;7:25. doi: 10.22454/PRiMER.2023.296084. eCollection 2023.
Future Doctors (FD), a high school pathway program, was developed to address the lack of compositional diversity in the health professions at our health sciences campus.
We obtained, analyzed, and compared data on FD student demographic and educational achievement at undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Utah and graduate programs at other institutions to non-FD students. We followed students from high school to graduate school.
We analyzed data from 1,897 FD participants (2014-2019). FD participants were 71% women, with 50.3% identifying as students of color. Ninety-eight students matriculated in graduate school, with 75 (76%) remaining at University of Utah and 45 (46%) attending health sciences graduate programs.
FD student cohorts are more diverse than those in the University of Utah undergraduate and graduate programs, contributing to the diversity of those programs. More research is needed to ensure that graduate school gains are evidenced in all underrepresented groups.
“未来医生”(FD)是一项高中衔接项目,旨在解决我们健康科学园区卫生专业人员构成缺乏多样性的问题。
我们获取、分析并比较了犹他大学本科和研究生项目以及其他机构研究生项目中FD学生的人口统计学数据和学业成绩,并与非FD学生进行了对比。我们跟踪了从高中到研究生阶段的学生。
我们分析了1897名FD参与者(2014 - 2019年)的数据。FD参与者中71%为女性,50.3%为有色人种学生。98名学生进入了研究生阶段,其中75名(76%)留在了犹他大学,45名(46%)进入了健康科学研究生项目。
FD学生群体比犹他大学本科和研究生项目中的学生群体更加多样化,为这些项目的多样性做出了贡献。需要更多研究以确保在所有代表性不足的群体中都能体现出研究生阶段的收获。