The field of medicine has long skewed white and male. Only 5 percent [1] of the American physician work force is African-American, and roughly 2 percent are Black women [2].
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August 11, 2020
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The field of medicine has long skewed white and male. Only 5 percent [1] of the American physician work force is African-American, and roughly 2 percent are Black women [2].
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[1] https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data/figure-18-percentage-all-active-physicians-race/ethnicity-2018
[2] https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/blog-article/healthforce-news/black-female-doctors-represent-only-tiny-fraction-all-doctors
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/health/microaggression-medicine-doctors.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVdSbFltSTNZVFkxTURNeSIsInQiOiJpREhrUHZRN0hJK3pCa3ErQUY4N2NVeVhDUVhjVkhhMmVoMUk0RXhRRlwvNzZDM2lPeWtCV3BYSE1zWThFR0s1dFBHdHd3NmFwNEtuSExtTHNVK3UzZzg0c3JmVWdDUlhCbGJTY011TnVEd0dcL0hydVdlN2xHNHJxYStIT0REWUs5In0%3D