Resources and Reading Material

University of Pennsylvania Resources

• The Office for Diversity and Community Outreach in Undergraduate Medical Education
• Office of Diversity and Community Outreach
• The Biomedical Postdoctoral Council Diversity Committee
• University Council statement regarding Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty and Students
• Ernest E Just Biomedical Society
• (PEER) Program for Health Equity in Education and Research
• Diversity in GI 2018 for DOM report (PDF)

External Resources

• American Gastroenterological Association URM Committee
• Association of American Medical Colleges (URM Definition)

Suggested Reading Material

• Ginther, D. Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards. (PDF) Science 2011 Aug; 333: 1015-1019 (PDF)
• Omary. Gastroenterology. (PDF) 2010 Jan;138(1):19-26.e1-3. Epub 2009 Nov 26. (PDF)
• J Natl Med Assoc. 2008 Sep;100(9):1084-7
• JAMA. 2000 Sep 6;284(9):1085-92
• J Womens Health Gend Based Med. 2001 Jul-Aug;10(6):541-50
• J Natl Med Assoc. 2006 Sep;98(9):1435-40
• Basken, Pau. NIH Considers Anonymity for Grant Applicants The Chronicle of Higher Education. 10 Dec 2012.
• Pololi L et al. The Experience of Minority Faculty Who Are Underrepresented in Medicine, at 26 Representative US Medical Schools. Academic Medicine Vol. 88, No. 9 September 2013. [PDF]
• Sanchez JP et al. Racial and Ethnic Minority Medical Students' Perceptions of and Interest in Careers in Academic Medicine. Academic Medicine Vol. 88, No. September 2013. [PDF]
• River-Nieves J and Abreu MT. A Call for Investment in Education of US Minorities in the 21st Century. Gastroenterology. 2013 May; 144(5): 863-867. (PDF)
• American Medical News. 2013 Feb 25. Black men increasingly hard to find in medical schools. (PDF)
• Rustgi. Minority Research Investigators Workshop Letter 2015 (PDF)