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Building an ethnically and racially diverse neurology workforce

Hamilton, Roy H.·2024·Nature Reviews Neurology
DOI 10.1038/s41582-024-00941-3
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As diversity among patient populations continues to grow, racial and ethnic diversity in the neurology workforce is increasingly essential to the delivery of culturally competent care and for enabling inclusive, generalizable clinical research. Unfortunately, diversity in the workforce is an area in which the field of neurology has historically lagged and faces formidable challenges, including an inadequate number of trainees entering the field, bias experienced by trainees and faculty from minoritized racial and ethnic backgrounds, and 'diversity tax', the disproportionate burden of service work placed on minoritized people in many professions. Although neurology departments, professional organizations and relevant industry partners have come to realize the importance of diversity to the field and have taken steps to promote careers in neurology for people from minoritized backgrounds, additional steps are needed. Such steps include the continued creation of diversity leadership roles in neurology departments and organizations, the creation of robust pipeline programmes, aggressive recruitment and retention efforts, the elevation of health equity research and engagement with minoritized communities. Overall, what is needed is a shift in culture in which diversity is adopted as a core value in the field.

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Authors
Hamilton, R. H.
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Nature Reviews Neurology
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2024-02-22
Volume
20
Issue
4
Pages
222-231
ISSN
  • 1759-4758
  • 1759-4766
DOI
10.1038/s41582-024-00941-3
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