The Need to Mitigate Unconscious Bias to Improve Sponsorship Opportunities for Underrepresented Faculty in Academic Radiology

AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2022 Feb;218(2):378-379. doi: 10.2214/AJR.21.26481. Epub 2021 Sep 1.

Abstract

Women physicians and those from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in medicine face unique barriers to career advancement in academic medicine, especially in specialties that lack diversity such as radiology. One such barrier is the effect of unconscious bias on the ability of faculty from these groups to find effective sponsors. Given the central role of sponsorship in career advancement, departments are called on to implement formal sponsorship programs to address inequities stemming from bias.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Academic Medical Centers
  • Bias, Implicit*
  • Career Choice
  • Career Mobility*
  • Cultural Diversity*
  • Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data
  • Faculty, Medical / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Interprofessional Relations
  • Minority Groups / statistics & numerical data*
  • Personnel Selection / methods
  • Physicians, Women / statistics & numerical data
  • Racial Groups / statistics & numerical data
  • Radiology*
  • Unconscious, Psychology*