ArticleAEM education and training2025
Examining racial, ethnic, and gender representation of applicants and matriculants to emergency medicine residency programs from 2005 to 2021.
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- Racial and Ethnic Composition of the U.S. Emergency Medicine Workforce, Change From 2013 to 2023.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Article
- Examining racial, ethnic, and gender representation of applicants and matriculants to emergency medicine residency programs from 2005 to 2021.AEM education and training · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objectives: The emergency medicine (EM) patient population is racially and ethnically diverse, and the presence of racial and gender minority physicians may help overcome health disparities among these patients. The purpose of this study was to examine representation and its trends of racial, ethnic, and gender identities entering the EM workforce. Methods: Reports on race, ethnicity, and gender for medical school graduates, EM applicants, and residents were obtained for the years 2005-2021. Racial and ethnic groups included Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White; gender identities included men and women. The proportion of each identity in each cohort was divided by a denominator of their corresponding U.S. medical school graduate proportion, producing representation quotients among applicants and matriculants (RQ Results: Men who self-identified as Black (RQ Conclusions: Asian men, Asian women, and Black women remain underrepresented in EM residencies. Additional recruitment efforts to ensure their equitable representation are necessary in future application cycles.
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