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. 2022 Mar 1;5(3):e222621.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.2621.

Socioeconomic Diversity of the Matriculating US Medical Student Body by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex, 2017-2019

Arman A Shahriar  1 , Vikram V Puram  1 , Jonathan M Miller  2 , Varun Sagi  1 , Lorenzo Adolfo Castañón-Gonzalez  1 , Shailendra Prasad  3 , Renée Crichlow  4   5
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Socioeconomic Diversity of the Matriculating US Medical Student Body by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex, 2017-2019

Arman A Shahriar et al. JAMA Netw Open. .

Abstract

This survey study compares the socioeconomic composition of the 2017 to 2019 matriculating medical student body with that of the US population, by self-identified race and ethnicity and by sex.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Figure.. Comparison of Socioeconomic Composition of US Medical Students and US Households by 4 Major Racial and Ethnic Groups
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