Association of Socioeconomic Status With Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society Membership Among Medical Students

Mytien Nguyen; Hyacinth R C Mason; Patrick G O'Connor; Marcella Nunez-Smith; William A McDade; Darin Latimore; Dowin Boatright

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.10730

Association of Socioeconomic Status With Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society Membership Among Medical Students

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jun 1;4(6):e2110730. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.10730.

Authors

Mytien Nguyen¹, Hyacinth R C Mason², Patrick G O'Connor³, Marcella Nunez-Smith³, William A McDade⁴, Darin Latimore³, Dowin Boatright⁵

Affiliations

¹ MD-PhD Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Department of Medical Education and Family and Community Medicine, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York.
³ Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Accrediation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study investigates the association between Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) honor society membership and medical student socioeconomic status.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Attitude of Health Personnel
Clinical Competence*
Education, Medical, Undergraduate / organization & administration*
Humans
Schools, Medical / organization & administration
Societies, Medical / organization & administration
Students, Medical / statistics & numerical data*
United States

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States