Understanding the Medical Education Experiences of Low-Income Students Through a Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Lens: An Exploratory Qualitative Study.

Background: Diversity in the physician workforce is critical for quality patient care. Students from low-income backgrounds represent an increasing proportion of medical school matriculants, yet little research has addressed their medical school experiences.

Objective: To explore the medical school experiences of students from low-income backgrounds using a modified version of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (physiologic, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization) as a theoretical framework.

First-Generation Low-Income Individuals in Medicine: A Scoping Review.

Purpose: This comprehensive scoping review of the medical literature on first-generation low-income (FGLI) individuals in medicine aimed to synthesize the highest levels of evidence to inform medical education stakeholders.

Method: Database searches were conducted in Academic Search Premier, Education Research Premier, ERIC, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, Professional Development Collection, PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Web of Science Core Collection from database inception through March 15, 2023. English-language articles on first-generation or low-income individuals in medicine from U.

Challenges Facing First-Generation College Graduates in Medical School: A Qualitative Analysis.

Importance: First-generation (FG) medical students remain underrepresented in medicine despite ongoing national efforts to increase diversity; understanding the challenges faced by this student population is essential to building holistic policies, practices, and learning environments that promote professional actualization. Although FG students have been extensively studied in the undergraduate literature, there is little research investigating how FG students experience medical education or opportunities for educators to intervene.

Objective: To explore challenges that FG students experience in undergraduate medical education and identify opportunities to improve foundational FG support.

Changing Faces: Factors Associated with the Intention to Pursue Plastic Surgery and Practice in Underserved Areas.

Unlabelled: Improving the number of plastic and reconstructive surgeons who provide care to patients in underserved communities is critical to achieving health equity. We aimed to identify factors associated with graduating medical students' intentions to pursue plastic surgery and practice in underserved areas.

Methods: De-identified data for US medical school graduates were obtained from the Association of American Medical Colleges for students who matriculated in academic years 2007-2008 and 2011-2012.

Medical student intentions to practice internal medicine in underserved areas associated with debt, identity and extracurricular participation.

Background: Currently, Internal Medicine (IM) physicians do not reflect the ethno-racial diversity of the US population. Moreover, there is a shortage of IM physicians in Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) in the US. The purpose of this study was to determine factors that influence medical students' intent to practice IM in MUAs.

Student and Teacher Perspectives on Equity in Clinical Feedback: A Qualitative Study Using a Critical Race Theory Lens.

Purpose: The authors aimed to gain a better understanding of students' and teachers' perspectives about whether clinical clerkship feedback is provided equitably irrespective of a student's race/ethnicity.

Method: A secondary analysis of existing interview data was conducted, focusing on racial/ethnic disparities in clinical grading. Data had been acquired from 29 students and 30 teachers at 3 U.

Race and Gender in Ophthalmology: A National Analysis of Medical Students with Intention to Pursue the Field.

 The field of ophthalmology must become more reflective of the increasingly diverse U.S. population.

Demographic Factors and Medical School Experiences Associated with Students' Intention to Pursue Orthopaedic Surgery and Practice in Underserved Areas.

Unlabelled: Physician shortages across the United States will affect access to orthopaedic care for patients. Orthopaedic surgery is predicted to have one of the largest shortages among surgical subspecialties by 2025, which will disproportionally affect patients in medically underserved areas. This study examines characteristics and experiences of graduating medical students interested in orthopaedic surgery who intend to practice in underserved areas (IPUAs).

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): Maximizing Impacts in Medical Education and Health Care.

Introduction: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) provides a path for individuals who are undocumented to join the physician workforce. Indeed, recipients of DACA can play an important role in addressing health inequities in medicine. Although DACA has been in place since 2012, many medical schools remain unaware of it or are hesitant to consider recipients for admission.

Variation in Research Experiences and Publications During Medical School by Sex and Race and Ethnicity.

Importance: Diverse research teams are critical to solving complex health problems and producing high-quality medical research.

Objective: To examine the associations of student sex and racial and ethnic identity with publication rates during medical school.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This cohort study assessed individual-level data of US MD graduates from medical school who matriculated in academic years 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016.

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Clerkship Grading: Perspectives of Students and Teachers.

Purpose: Racial/ethnic disparities exist in clinical clerkship grading, yet little is known about medical student and faculty perspectives on why these disparities occur. This study explored what happens during clerkships that might explain grading disparities.

Method: Medical students and clerkship teachers at 3 U.

Association of Sociodemographic Characteristics With US Medical Student Attrition.

Importance: Diversity in the medical workforce is critical to improve health care access and achieve equity for resource-limited communities. Despite increased efforts to recruit diverse medical trainees, there remains a large chasm between the racial and ethnic and socioeconomic composition of the patient population and that of the physician workforce.

Objective: To analyze student attrition from medical school by sociodemographic identities.

Working With Burmese Patients: Understanding Historical and Cultural Contexts to Improve Health Care Access and Health Status.

Introduction: Burmese patients resettled in the United States as refugees constitute one of the country's largest refugee populations. As health inequities within the wider Asian and Asian American population have garnered more attention, medical professionals have worked to better understand how to provide care to Burmese and Burmese American patients. This workshop addresses the pressing need to provide culturally responsive care to this growing population.

Characteristics of graduating medical students interested in neurosurgery with intention to practice in underserved areas: Implications for residency programs.

Objective: It is of paramount importance that the United States (U.S.) physician and surgical workforce reflects its changing population demographics.

Identifying and Addressing Basic Needs Insecurity Among Medical Students: A Curriculum for Trainees, Administrators, and Faculty.

Introduction: Data from a 2018 United States Government Accountability Office report show that basic needs insecurity undermines the postsecondary educational experiences of many students. In recent years, basic needs insecurity among undergraduate students has gained attention in the literature, but published data regarding medical trainees are extremely limited.

Methods: A 60-minute interactive workshop consisting of a PowerPoint presentation and case discussions was created.

Allyship in Residency: An Introductory Module on Medical Allyship for Graduate Medical Trainees.

Introduction: Lack of diversity impacts research, medical curricula, and medical trainees' ability to provide equitable patient care. The concept of allyship, defined as a supportive association between identities with power and privilege and marginalized identities, provides an optimal framework for enhancing education about health equity. Currently, there are no established curricula focused on allyship and limited mention within current medical training literature.

First-generation and continuing-generation college graduates' application, acceptance, and matriculation to U.S. medical schools: a national cohort study.

Many U.S. medical schools conduct holistic review of applicants to enhance the socioeconomic and experiential diversity of the physician workforce.

Characteristics of medical students interested in emergency medicine with intention to practice in underserved areas.

Objectives: Emergency departments serve a wide variety of racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and gender backgrounds. It is currently unknown what characteristics of students who express interest in emergency medicine (EM) are associated with a simultaneous desire to work in medically underserved areas. We hypothesize that those who are underrepresented in medicine, are female, learn another language, and have more student debt will be more likely to practice in a medically underserved area.

Association of Demographic Factors and Medical School Experiences With Students' Intention to Pursue a Surgical Specialty and Practice in Underserved Areas.

Importance: The surgical workforce shortage is a threat to promoting health equity in medically underserved areas. Although the Health Resources and Services Administration and the American College of Surgeons have called to increase the surgical pipeline for trainees to mitigate this shortage, the demographic factors associated with students' intention to practice in underserved areas is unknown.

Objective: To evaluate the association between students' demographics and medical school experiences with intention to pursue surgery and practice in underserved areas.

Developing a Novel Interactive Colorectal Cancer Educational Session for First-Year Medical Students to Enhance Interest in Public Health.

Medical students need more exposure to and a greater understanding of their role in public health throughout their training, which may influence more of them to pursue careers in public health or change how they practice medicine in the future. A novel colorectal cancer education session was created for first year medical students to attempt to increase public health interest, improve colorectal cancer knowledge and discuss barriers to colorectal cancer screening. We constructed a novel integrated interactive peer led colorectal cancer educational session of panelists with a wide range of experiences in colorectal cancer and colorectal cancer screening.