While students entering medical schools are becoming more diverse, trainees in residency
programs in competitive specialties and academic medicine faculty have not increased in …

Purpose Stereotype threat is an important psychological phenomenon in which fear of
fulfilling negative stereotypes about one's group impairs performance. The effects of …

As universities and employers strive for greater socioeconomic diversity, understanding First-
Generation, Low-Income (FGLI) status as a dimension of diversity is crucial. This review …

From 1940 to 1980, studies of medical education were foundational to sociology, but
attention shifted away from medical training in the late 1980s. Recently, there has been a …

Current challenges to affirmative action policies are cause for concern for medical schools
that employ holistic admissions processes, which consider an applicant's race, ethnicity …

Background Struggling at medical school incorporates academic failure, course disruption
and early course exit. Struggling is usually multi-factorial involving academic, personal …

Background/introduction As patient populations become more diverse, it is imperative that
future physicians receive proper training in order to provide the best quality of care. This …

Trainee distress and burnout continue to be serious concerns for educational programs in
medicine, prompting the implementation of numerous interventions. Although an expansive …

Purpose This study explores medical students' perspectives on the key features of ideal
supervisor responses to microaggressions targeting clerkship medical students. Method …

This study presents descriptions of epistemic injustice in the experiences of women medical
students and provides accounts about how these students worked to redress these …