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Comment
. 2021 Jun;18(6):327-335.
doi: 10.1038/s41585-021-00461-5. Epub 2021 May 4.

Rising Black voices in urology - the next generation

Justin K Achua  1 , Jordan Bilbrew  2 , Keiko Cooley  3 , Amber Herbert  4 , Asia N Matthew-Onabanjo  5 , Odinachi Moghalu  6 , Akya Myrie  7 , Nkiruka Odeluga  8 , Jeunice Owens-Walton  9 , Arriana Rieland  10 , Dyvon Walker  11 , Aboubacar Kaba  12
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Rising Black voices in urology - the next generation

Justin K Achua et al. Nat Rev Urol. 2021 Jun.

Abstract

In 2020, Nature Reviews Urology made a pledge to actively work towards improving diversity in our field. As we head into 2021, Black urologists make up only 2% of the US workforce in urology; this lack of representation is detrimental to the field as a whole and to the patients it serves. In this Viewpoint, which follows on from our previous article ‘Supporting Black voices in urology’, 12 medical students who have chosen to enter the field recount their experiences, describing their reasons for entering urology and why they chose particular programmes. As well as illustrating the importance of mentorship and representation, they also offer ideas on how urology programmes can better appeal to Black students, in order to encourage and support under-represented minorities into our specialty in the future.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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Fig. 1. Rising Black voices in urology; the authors.
Top row, left to right: Justin Achua, Jordan Bilbrew, Keiko Cooley, Amber Herbert. Middle row, left to right: Asia Matthew-Onabanjo, Odinachi Moghalu, Akya Myrie, Nkiruka Odeluga. Bottom row, left to right: Jeunice Owens-Walton, Arriana Rieland, Dyvon Walker and Aboubacar Kaba.
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Comment on

  • Supporting Black voices in urology.
    Downs TM, Enemchukwu E, Lee CT, Moses KA, Nyame YA, Powell IJ, Vince R, Williams H, Wilson S, Washington SL. Downs TM, et al. Nat Rev Urol. 2021 Jan;18(1):7-17. doi: 10.1038/s41585-020-00401-9. Epub 2020 Dec 14. Nat Rev Urol. 2021. PMID: 33318668 Free PMC article.

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