We are an association of first-generation college graduates and/or low-income medical students, physicians, faculty, & administrators.
Joined November 2019
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NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY 🌟 The LEAP-URiM study is looking for "student recruitment champions" for a longitudinal study of research career intentions among medical students.
Student recruitment champions are compensated up to $500 for their time! ⬇️
The #SCOTUS decision to ban #AffirmativeAction is an injustice to our patient & families. Please remember that "class-based affirmative action" is an effective approach to increase diversity in medicine. @UCDavisCDHW statnews.com/2023/03/07/how-…
Incredible📰from one of ours @MytienTNguyen & why FGLI chapters are so critical
Adjusted med school acceptance rate by income:
<$50k: 24%
$50k-75k: 27%
$75k-125k: 30%
$125k-200k: 33%
>$200,000: 37%
Your family income should not affect your chance of acceptance into med school
1/ Excited to share our new study @JAMA_current
tldr🚨the percent of low-income medical school applicants & matriculants is decreasing ja.ma/3VUvNUA🚨
1⃣ Thank you to the team @DowinHugh @tonyafancher @DrHyacinthMason @mayurdesai123 Sarwat Chaudhry @FGLIMed
2⃣ 🧵below
FGLI students experience significant disparate attrition at every junction in medicine. Join @SocialMissionEd & @MytienTNguyen for a panel to discuss war of attrition in healthcare on Feb 23 at 8pm EST. REGISTER here: gwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
Read our FGLIMed study on intersectional identities and attrition from medical school where low-income, URiM students who grew in underresourced neighborhoods are leaving medical school at the highest rate jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Excited to share our study on sex & race/ethnic inequities in research experiences and publications during medical school w/ @DowinHugh in @JAMANetworkOpen, ja.ma/3W46kYo
Main findings: women, URiM, ESPECIALLY URiM women students have the lowest publication rates
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As interview season ramps up— check out our T4D Road to Residency webinars including tips for interviews, rank list & match.
#Match2023 @LmsaNational @SNMA @anams1975 @FGLIMed @APAMSA @Tour4Diversity
Remember 4th Year Med Students:
If you need to revisit a recent talk or presentation check out our YouTube Page. ESPECIALLY our recent Road to Residency where you can go over various specialties and how to stand out
youtube.com/c/Tour4Diversity
@SNMA @LmsaNational
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So honored & privileged to join @ushamcfarling & @DowinHugh to discuss diversity in medicine at the 2022 @statnews Summit. We will have a critical conversation on why there aren't more Black doctors. We hope you can join us in Boston! statnews.com/2022/summit/sta… @YaleMed @nyulangone
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Another great📰by Hill et al @JAMANetworkOpen on medical honor societies
Sociodemographic disparities exists in both AOA & GHHS membership, but disparities were larger, more prevalent, & increased with multiple marginalized identities in AOA
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… @DowinHugh
New study from @MytienTNguyen & team found that approx 1 out of 12 low-income URiM students will not be placed in a GME program upon graduation
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jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
In our latest @JAMANetworkOpen on the leaky pathway in medicine, we found that URiM, esp low-income URiM students are significantly more likely to go UNMATCHED, even after adjusting for USMLE Step 2 scores @acgme @LmsaNational @anams1975 @SNMA @FGLIMed shorturl.at/oQW03
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In this new @jamanetwork study of more than 33,000 allopathic MD-only medical students who identified as underrepresented in medicine race and ethnicity, had low income, and were from under resourced backgrounds were more likely to leave medical school.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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1/ Let's look at racial and ethnic identity:
1 in 20 of Black and Hispanic students leave medical school
1 in 10 (‼️) of American Indian/Alaska Native, Hawaiian Native/other Pacific Islander leave medical school
This is not OK. @LmsaNational @anams1975 @SNMA @ajcalac
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#DearMedTwitter, every Black, Hispanic, AIAN, HNPI student who leave medicine hurts not just the medical institution, but also our patients and the communities that medicine professes to serve
Diversity, equity, and INCLUSION doesn't end at admission
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Med training is traumatizing to underrepresented students, filled with glass shards, boulders, and glass walls
➡️MUST READ "Repaving the Pathway to Prevent the Loss of Students With Marginalized Identities" ja.ma/3PeCahe by @mlypson @CristinaMDNYC @paulaross_phd
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#DearMedTwitter, does your medical school currently track attrition by gender, race, ethnicity, income, childhood spent in underserved areas?
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Students with one or more marginalized identities are more likely to leave medical school, even after adjusting for academic performance. There's so much to digest from this work that I will tweet (read: rant) about in the next couple of days. Stay tuned!👇
This cohort study found that the prevalence of inequality in attrition rates across individual and structural measures of marginalization warrants systemic and structural reform. ja.ma/3NSifDu
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2/ Low-income students (incl students who were previously low-income) & students who grew up in medically underserved neighborhoods experience 2X the rate of attrition compared to their peers @FGLIMed
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#MedTwitter, it's time to talk about attrition & the persistent leaky path for Black&Hispanic men
3% of med students are Black men, & this leakiness does not stop after matriculation‼️We need to admit AND graduate more men of color
New study @JournalGIM link.springer.com/article/10…
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Why are students of color leaving medical school? Mistreatment and discrimination is one reason. It just compounds the issue when you are already asking ‘Is medicine right for me?’ study author @MytienTNguyen, a Black-Vietnamese medical student, told me. statnews.com/2022/05/31/medi…
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Mistreatment+discrimination in med school leads students to leave, a problem disproportionately affecting students of color already underrepresented. My story today with @DowinHugh @MytienTNguyen @UREssien and Geoffrey Young of @AAMCtoday statnews.com/2022/05/31/medi… via @statnews