Association of Racial and Ethnic Identity With Attrition From MD-PhD Training Programs

JAMA Intern Med. 2023 Jul 31;183(9):1021-1023. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.2822. Online ahead of print.

¹ Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
³ Center for Applied Transgender Studies, Chicago, Illinois.
⁴ South Texas Medical Science Training Program, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
⁵ Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁶ Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York.

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This cohort study analyzes the attrition rates of students from MD-PhD training programs by race and ethnicity.