National Evaluation of Racial/Ethnic Discrimination in US Surgical Residency Programs

JAMA Surg. 2020 Jun 1;155(6):526-528. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2020.0260.

Tarik K Yuce¹, Patricia L Turner^{2

3}, Charity Glass⁴, David B Hoyt², Thomas Nasca⁵, Karl Y Bilimoria¹, Yue-Yung Hu^{1

6}

¹ Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center, Department of Surgery and Center for Healthcare Studies, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
² American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
³ Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois.
⁶ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

Abstract

This cohort study surveyed resident surgeons in the US to assess their experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination in residency programs.