爱德华。通过大学整骨疗法的医学

2023年4月5日

需要医生的推荐信(PLOR)充当障碍进入整骨疗法的医学院校,特别是对于申请者的种族和族裔群体弱势在医学界,新的研究发现。爱德华领导的研究中,研究人员通过骨科医学学院,我们是在De Gruyter整骨疗法的医学》期刊上发表。医学院校缺少多样性,民族和种族少数民族的重要代表名额不足。整骨疗法的医学学校,这些学生仅占学生人数的11.1%,尽管这样的团体,代表着整个美国人口的34.1%。多样性水平几乎没有改善在这样的学校在过去的50年里,该研究的作者报告。这样的代表名额不足有几个潜在的因素,如教育的差异和缺乏财政资源或为少数民族学生指导。此外,加入许多整骨疗法的医学学校在美国需要一个来自医生的推荐信未来的学生来自少数民族背景可能难以获得。原因各不相同,但一个因素是,更少的医生来自少数民族背景意味着更少的少数民族社区和医生之间的连接。这可以减少医生的数量,未来的学生认为他们可以请求的方法一个字母。“我在努力寻找一个医生帮我写一封推荐信,因为我根本不知道,”贾斯汀•福克斯说,这项研究的首席作者, “I never had a family physician or pediatrician. There were no doctors in my family, my church, or my neighborhood.” Using data from the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Application Services, Fox and colleagues determined the race and ethnicity of applicants and matriculants at osteopathic medical schools from 2009 to 2019. They found that schools with a PLOR requirement had fewer applicants and matriculants from all races and ethnicities than schools without a PLOR requirement. However, minority groups were particularly badly affected; for example, schools requiring a PLOR had 37.3% fewer Black applicants and 51.2% fewer Black matriculants on average. These results have prompted the authors to recommend that medical schools should discontinue PLOR requirements. “I conducted this research to confirm what I already knew to be true – that physician letters of recommendation are a barrier to diversity in medicine – and to convince medical schools to do something about it,” said Fox. Journal