Wang Andrew, Goel Keshav, Shlobin Nathan A, Liu Timothy, Liou Mandy, Thum Jasmine A, Hines Oscar J, Holly Langston T
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
College of Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
Surg Open Sci. 2023 Oct 31;16:244-247. doi: 10.1016/j.sopen.2023.10.013. eCollection 2023 Dec.
Representation of female surgical residents has slowly increased, but underrepresented in medicine (URiM) representation remains disappointingly low. National residency matching reports suggest that meaningful research experience improves surgical residency match success - therefore, formal funding opportunities and early mentorship for URiM medical students. In this study, we catalog medical student (MS) funding opportunities (funding type, eligibility by year, mission, compensation, length of commitment, number of awardees, and dollar investment amount per student) from 7 surgical departments (general surgery, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, plastic surgery, otorhinolaryngology, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery) within 196 US medical schools and 20 professional surgical educational organizations through manually searching web pages. We recorded 146 surgical funding opportunities from medical school surgical departments and 16 surgical funding opportunities from professional organizations. Overall, we find that medical institutions' surgical departments and professional surgical educational organizations may not be effectively utilizing recruitment strategies in MS funding opportunities.
女性外科住院医师的比例虽在缓慢上升,但在医学领域中代表性不足(URiM)的群体所占比例仍低得令人失望。全国住院医师匹配报告表明,有意义的研究经历能提高外科住院医师匹配成功率,因此,应为URiM医学生提供正式的资金机会和早期指导。在本研究中,我们通过手动搜索网页,梳理了美国196所医学院校的7个外科科室(普通外科、胸外科、血管外科、整形外科、耳鼻喉科、骨科、神经外科)以及20个专业外科教育组织为医学生提供的资金机会(资金类型、按年份划分的资格、使命、薪酬、承诺时长、获奖者数量以及每名学生的资金投入金额)。我们记录了医学院校外科科室提供的146个外科资金机会以及专业组织提供的16个外科资金机会。总体而言,我们发现医疗机构的外科科室和专业外科教育组织在医学生资金机会方面可能未有效利用招募策略。