Authors
Achua, Justin K.Bilbrew, Jordan
Cooley, Keiko
Herbert, Amber
Matthew-Onabanjo, Asia
Moghalu, Odinachi
Myrie, Akya
Odeluga, Nkiruka
Owens-Walton, Jeunice
Rieland, Arriana
Walker, Dyvon
Kaba, Aboubacar
UMass Chan Affiliations
Graduate School of Biomedical SciencesDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2021-06-01Keywords
Health careScientific community and society
Urology
Health and Medical Administration
Medical Education
Race and Ethnicity
Urology
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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.Source
Achua JK, Bilbrew J, Cooley K, Herbert A, Matthew-Onabanjo AN, Moghalu O, Myrie A, Odeluga N, Owens-Walton J, Rieland A, Walker D, Kaba A. Rising Black voices in urology - the next generation. Nat Rev Urol. 2021 Jun;18(6):327-335. doi: 10.1038/s41585-021-00461-5. Epub 2021 May 4. PMID: 33948013; PMCID: PMC8095471. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI
10.1038/s41585-021-00461-5Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/41952PubMed ID
33948013Related Resources
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