History
Non-white persons were allowed to attend medical school in the United states in this year.
What is 1865?
True or false: Female patients experiencing an MI have the same mortality outcomes regardless of the gender of their physician.
False
Females with MIs have DOUBLE the risk of mortality if they have a male physician.
In 2018, only this _% of active physicians identified as Hispanic.
What is 5.8%?
In 2021, the US Census found Hispanic US residents made up __% of the US population.
What is 18.9%?
True or false. Women and URMs in EM seek mentorship more frequently during their career than their male counterparts.
True
True or False: The AMA began to publicly condemn racist policies in medicine as early as 1980.
False.
The AMA did not publicly condemn racist policies until 2008.
True or false: Only female patients being cared for by a female hospitalist while admitted have lower mortality.
False.
In regards to all genders, 8 common medical conditions, and across all severity of illnesses, patients cared for by a female hospitalist had lower mortality and a lower 30-day readmission rate.
In 2018, only this _% of active physicians identified as Black or African American.
What is 5%?
In 2021, the US government Census found that Black or African American US residents made up __% of the US population.
What is 13.6%?
In 2008, CORD released a set of recruitment strategies to increase the number of URMs in EM residencies. Name one strategy that was suggested.
Any one of the following:
• Verbally recognize the diversity present in the residency program when URM applicants arrive to interview.
• Express that the department welcomes and is actively recruiting students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.
• Know the institution’s local and community demographics, and address those needs.
• Broaden selection criteria beyond USMLE scores to include intangibles such as leadership, community service, and other life experiences.
• Develop curricula to address topics on diversity, cultural competence and implicit bias.
• Become involved in programs designed to increase the number of URMs entering into the field of medicine.
• Offer URM interview dinners and social events.
• Include diversity in recruitment material and institutional website.
True or False: Lack of representation in medicine has been solely due to discriminatory policies.
False.
Lack of representation in medicine continues and has also been attributed to wealth in medicine as well as discrimination from patients leading to career dissatisfaction and minority physicians to discontinue practice
Muslim patients during Ramadan have this stance towards oral medications while fasting.
What is there is no one right answer?
This racial/ethnicity group represents only 0.1% of physicians.
What is Hawaiian/Pacific Islander?
The population size of transgender individuals in the US is not well known due to this.
What is official records, including the US Census, does not include data on gender identity?
What percentage of URMs (excluding Asians) represent EM residents nationwide?
9%
True or False: Once minority physicians were accepted into medical schools, they were able to easily practice upon graduating.
False.
Minority members were excluded from Medical Societies which affected their ability to practice.
In 2018, a study of 190 family medicine physicians from a large midwest health system showed __% of physicians felt capable providing routine primary care to a transgender patient.
What is 69%?
35.8% of physicians identify as this.
What is female?
Based on a 2017 study in Journal of Public Health, transgender individuals had 4 times the rate of being diagnosed with this.
What is HIV infection?
ACEP proposed 3 foundational components of a successful diversity program. What are the 3 components?
Mentorship, sponsorship, coaching
URM responded to their exclusion from medical societies by forming this.
What is by creating their own medical societies?
Dr. Takeshita at UPenn completed a study that showed patients preferred physicians that looked like them due to this prescription.
What is shampoo for eczema?
Among _____ physicians, females constituted a larger proportion than males.
What is Black or African American physicians?
Individuals of Black and Hispanic groups had a higher risk of this infection and hospitalization compared to their White counterparts.
What is COVID-19?
According to a large 2021 study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, this strategy helped overcome the hurdles of long distance and under representation in mentorship in Emergency Medicine.
What is Virtual Mentorship?