Start Date
5-15-2025 9:30 AM
End Date
5-15-2025 11:30 AM
Description
Introduction & Aims
Health inequities are ubiquitous throughout medicine especially pertaining to accessibility, affordability, and availability. These challenges disproportionately affect minorities- both patients and providers alike [3,4]. Patient outcomes have been shown to improve when treated by physicians of similar backgrounds [3,4,7]. The journey to improve outcomes begins with pre-residency rotations; medical students who can complete audition rotations have an increased opportunity to matriculate into said residency program. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R), like many specialties, is disproportionately represented by men and Caucasians [1,5, 8] with the greatest drop in URM representation occurring between applicants and residents [Escalon]. This project aims to analyze the affordability, availability, and accessibility of stipends and scholarships offered to medical students underrepresented in medicine (URM) during away rotations/externships within the known PM&R programs across the US, and begins to investigate longitudinal disparities.
Keywords
stipend, scholarship, underrepresented, student, externship, pipeline, recruitment, physiatry
Included in
Gender and Sexuality Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Medicine and Health Commons, Rehabilitation and Therapy Commons
Visiting Medical Student Stipends in the US | An Analysis of Equity within Physiatry
Introduction & Aims
Health inequities are ubiquitous throughout medicine especially pertaining to accessibility, affordability, and availability. These challenges disproportionately affect minorities- both patients and providers alike [3,4]. Patient outcomes have been shown to improve when treated by physicians of similar backgrounds [3,4,7]. The journey to improve outcomes begins with pre-residency rotations; medical students who can complete audition rotations have an increased opportunity to matriculate into said residency program. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R), like many specialties, is disproportionately represented by men and Caucasians [1,5, 8] with the greatest drop in URM representation occurring between applicants and residents [Escalon]. This project aims to analyze the affordability, availability, and accessibility of stipends and scholarships offered to medical students underrepresented in medicine (URM) during away rotations/externships within the known PM&R programs across the US, and begins to investigate longitudinal disparities.
Comments
Presented at the 2025 Jefferson Health Equity and Quality Improvement (HEQI) Summit.