Enhancing Residency Recruitment Processes to Facilitate a Diverse Work Force in Anesthesiology

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Committee News| May 2022 Enhancing Residency Recruitment Processes to Facilitate a Diverse Work Force in Anesthesiology Sujatha Ramachandran, MBBS, MACM; Sujatha Ramachandran, MBBS, MACM Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Camille Fontaine, MD; Camille Fontaine, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Tracey Straker, MD, MS, MPH, CBA, FASA Tracey Straker, MD, MS, MPH, CBA, FASA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor May 2022, Vol. 86, 36–37. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000830860.56287.f1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Sujatha Ramachandran, Camille Fontaine, Tracey Straker; Enhancing Residency Recruitment Processes to Facilitate a Diverse Work Force in Anesthesiology. ASA Monitor 2022; 86:36–37 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000830860.56287.f1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: internship and residency, mentors, workforce Building a diverse workforce of physician anesthesiologists should be paramount for hospitals and health care systems. More inclusive preoperative staff would better reflect current demographics nationwide, help address health care disparities, encourage minority patient participation in decision-making, improve patient outcomes and satisfaction, and foster greater innovation in medicine (JAMA Intern Med 2014;174:289-91; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020;117:9284-91). Despite these indisputable advantages of physician workforce diversity, the percentage of people identifying as belonging to racial/ethnic minority groups in medicine has continued to remain below that of the general U.S. population (JAMA Netw Open 2019;2:e1910490; N Engl J Med 2019;380:803-5). In anesthesiology, the percentage of under-represented minority (URM) physicians is around 11%. Medical schools are documenting upward trends in Black and brown female graduates (asamonitor.pub/3tLSg8M; JAMA Intern Med 2015;175:1706-8). As per the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), between 1986... You do not currently have access to this content.