Creating opportunities to engage with prospective historically marginalized trainees with clinical simulation.

Background: Recruiting a diverse group of medical students, house officers, and faculty in medicine is challenging-particularly for predominantly white, midwest institutions that may not be racially or ethnically diverse.

Purpose: To evaluate a novel clinical simulation program, SiMfest, for recruiting house officers from historically marginalized populations to our institution to demonstrate our leadership's commitment to high-quality education and recruitment of these students to enhance diversity in academic medicine.

Methods: The Office for Health Equity and Inclusion, institutional leadership, and clinical department chairs developed a novel and engaging series of clinical simulations, SiMfest, to engage the pipeline of historically marginalized trainees and demonstrate our leadership's commitment to high-quality education.

Medical Student Assessment of Pediatric Patient Pain as a Function of Perceived Child Gender.

This survey study investigates whether the perceived gender of a child is associated with how medical students assess a pediatric patient’s pain displayed and pain experienced.

Measuring Wealth and Wealth Inequality: Comparing Two U.S. Surveys.

Household wealth and its distribution are topics of broad public debate and increasing scholarly interest. We compare the relative strength of two of the main data sources used in research on the wealth holdings of U.S.