Inclusion and representation in the pediatric surgery workforce: Strategies to mitigate bias in the fellowship application process.

Autor: Berman L; Department of Surgery Nemours Children's Health, Wilmington, DE, USA, and Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, 1600 Rockland Road, Philadelphia, PA 19803, USA. Electronic address: loren.berman@nemours.org., Renaud E; Hasbro Children's Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA., Pace D; Department of Surgery Nemours Children's Health, Wilmington, DE, USA, and Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, 1600 Rockland Road, Philadelphia, PA 19803, USA., Downard CD; Division of Pediatric Surgery, Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA., Nwomeh BC; Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA., Huang EY; Department of Pediatric Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA., Weatherall YZ; Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA., Gadepalli SK; Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA., Mollen KP; Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA., Mak GZ; Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Comer Children's Hospital, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA., Newman E; Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of pediatric surgery [J Pediatr Surg] 2022 Nov; Vol. 57 (11), pp. 592-597. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 08.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2021.12.023
Abstrakt: Diverse perspectives are critical components of effective teams in every industry. Underrepresentation of minorities in medicine leads to worse outcomes for minority patients, and efforts to increase diversity in the health care workforce are critical. Presently, about 70% of the pediatric surgery workforce is white, and pediatric surgeons at large do not reflect the racial or ethnic diversity of the populations they serve. Pediatric surgery fellowship training programs are the gateway to the field, and fellow selection processes should be optimized to support diversity and inclusion. The Association of Pediatric Surgery Training Program Directors (APSTPD) Diversity Equity and Inclusion subcommittee compiled best practices for bias mitigation during fellow selection, drawing from published literature and personal experiences in our own programs. A list of concrete recommendations was compiled, which can be implemented in every phase from applicant screening to rank list creation. We present these as a position statement that has been endorsed by the executive committee of the APSTPD. Pediatric surgery fellowship programs can utilize this focused review of best practices to mitigate bias and support diverse applicants.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest None.
(Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Inc.)
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