Diversity and Inclusion Within AAPL

[摘要] The medical profession is well known to lack diversity. Recent estimates indicate that 4.1 percent of U.S. physicians are African-American while 12.3 percent of the U.S. population is African-American; further, the number of African-American male medical students peaked in 1978 and has been falling ever since. The percentage of U.S. physicians who are Latinx is 4.4, while 12.5 percent of the U.S. population is Latinx. Native Americans compose .4 percent of U.S. physicians, while 2 percent of the U.S. population is Native American. The 35 percent of U.S. physicians who are female are generally concentrated in specialties such as family practice, pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology. A 2017 Gallup poll concluded that 4.5 percent of adult Americans identified as LGBT, which breaks down to 5.1 percent of women and 3.9 percent of men identifying as LGBT. Yet there are few LGBTQ physicians, and many keep their orientation a secret to protect themselves from patients and co-workers.1,2 Sexual and gender minorities are concentrated in the specialties of psychiatry, family medicine, pediatrics, and internal medicine.

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