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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2021

Making the case for workforce diversity in biomedical informatics to help achieve equity-centered care: a look at the AMIA First Look Program.

Tiffani J Bright, Karmen S Williams, Sripriya Rajamani, Victoria L Tiase, Yalini Senathirajah, Courtney Hebert, Allison B McCoy

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Applying anti-racist approaches to informatics: a new lens on traditional frames.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023
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  6. Racism and Electronic Health Records (EHRs): Perspectives for research and practice.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Tiffani J BrightCenter for AI, Research, and Evaluation, IBM Watson Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0894-0107
Karmen S WilliamsDepartments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health and Policy, City University of New York, New York, New York, USA.
Sripriya RajamaniInstitute for Health Informatics, Office of Academic Clinical Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Victoria L TiaseValue Institute, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5653-2282
Yalini SenathirajahDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Courtney HebertDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Allison B McCoyDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2292-9147

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developing a diverse informatics workforce broadens the research agenda and ensures the growth of innovative solutions that enable equity-centered care. The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) established the AMIA First Look Program in 2017 to address workforce disparities among women, including those from marginalized communities. The program exposes women to informatics, furnishes mentors, and provides career resources. In 4 years, the program has introduced 87 undergraduate women, 41% members of marginalized communities, to informatics. Participants from the 2019 and 2020 cohorts reported interest in pursuing a career in informatics increased from 57% to 86% after participation, and 86% of both years' attendees responded that they would recommend the program to others. A June 2021 LinkedIn profile review found 50% of participants working in computer science or informatics, 4% pursuing informatics graduate degrees, and 32% having completed informatics internships, suggesting AMIA First Look has the potential to increase informatics diversity.

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InformaticsMedical InformaticsFemaleHumansMentorsWorkforcegendermedical informaticsmentoringworkforce diversity

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PMID34963144
PMCPMC8714276

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