Racial Diversity in Orthopedic Surgery

Rey N Ramirez; Corinna C Franklin

doi:10.1016/j.ocl.2019.03.010

Racial Diversity in Orthopedic Surgery

Orthop Clin North Am. 2019 Jul;50(3):337-344. doi: 10.1016/j.ocl.2019.03.010.

Authors

Rey N Ramirez¹, Corinna C Franklin²

Affiliations

¹ Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, 3 Cooper Plaza, Suite 408, Camden, NJ 08103, USA. Electronic address: rey.ramirez@gmail.com.
² Shriners Hospitals for Children, 3551 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.

PMID: 31084836
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocl.2019.03.010

Abstract

Data from the US Census Bureau, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons reveal that orthopedic surgery is the least diverse of any surgical specialty and that diversity within orthopedics is not improving. Considerable data from both medicine and business suggest that improving diversity within the orthopedic surgery specialty would be of significant benefit to the orthopedic surgery profession and to patients. Multiple avenues for increasing diversity exist, including large-scale pipeline programs as well as personal and institutional efforts examining biases and decision-making processes.

Keywords: Diversity; Ethnic diversity; Racial diversity; Representation.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Cultural Competency
Cultural Diversity*
Forecasting
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Internship and Residency / trends
Orthopedics / education*
Orthopedics / trends
Patient Satisfaction
Physician-Patient Relations
Racial Groups*
United States