The National Deficit of Black and Hispanic Physicians in the US and Projected Estimates of Time to Correction

Hector Mora; Adetokunbo Obayemi; Kevin Holcomb; Maurice Hinson

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.15485

The National Deficit of Black and Hispanic Physicians in the US and Projected Estimates of Time to Correction

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jun 1;5(6):e2215485. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.15485.

Authors

Hector Mora^{1

2

3}, Adetokunbo Obayemi^{2

4

5}, Kevin Holcomb^{1

2

4}, Maurice Hinson^{1

2

6}

Affiliations

¹ Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
² Black and Latino Men in Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
³ Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁴ NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
⁵ SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital, Syracuse, New York.
⁶ NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, Queens, New York.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study of US population and physician workforce data projects rates at which medical school matriculation would have to increase for Black and Hispanic medical students to reach equal representation in the workforce.

MeSH terms

Black People*
Hispanic or Latino
Humans
Physicians*