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1/ 🧵 NEW Paper.

We asked: Are there racial & ethnic differences in barriers to applying to & enrolling in med school and do those affect med school diversity?

TL;DR: Black & Hispanic students were less likely to apply & enroll and faced more barriers.

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2/ First, who did we study?

This was a study of >81,000 MCAT examinees (0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 21.3% Asian, 10.1% Black, 8.0% Hispanic, and 60.4% White) from 2015-2018.

I don’t know about y’all, but this was *the* hardest test I took. 😳

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3/ Next, what did we find?

1️⃣ Black (77.8%) & Hispanic examinees (71.3%) were ⬇️ likely than White examinees (80.2%) to apply to med school.

Black (40.6%) & Hispanic examinees (40.2%) were also ⬇️ likely than White examinees (45.0%) to matriculate.

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1/ Our new study @JAMANetworkOpen: Do patients evaluate black/female docs lower simply bc of race/gender? Results from vignette experiments suggest not. @basmahsaf @peyton_k @gordonkrafttodd
doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.20511
#tweetorial #diversityinmedicine #womeninmedicine
2/ Inspiration for the study came from personal experiences as a young female ER doc frequently restating my credential to patients, increased reports of #patientbias, and a headline of a young black physician who was rejected from assisting a passenger on a plane
3/ We have seen in prior observational work that many docs report patient-initiated harassment. But in the age of patient satisfaction surveys, no clear causal estimates abt. whether physician race/gender affects these ratings.
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Alright, I have some thoughts on this op-ed, esp how tradition + legacy are often used as a distraction tactic from diversity/inclusion.

Buckle up for A THREAD.

#MedTwitter #SoMeDocs #DoubleDocs #DiverseDoubleDocs #MedStudentTwitter #WomenInMedicine #DiversityInMedicine
As always I start my thread by recognizing my own position in this conversation: I am a (proud) Latina woman training to be a physician-scientist. I hold a lot of privilege having attended an Ivy League institution for undergrad and currently training as a #DoubleDocs at another.
My own alma mater #PrincetonU has been recently grappling with its own (problematic) history by taking active steps to diversify iconography + naming around campus. I am proud to say that this is in part due to a meeting I co-hosted as co-president of PLA in combo with other orgs
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