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{ "pk": 13616, "title": "Academic Emergency Medicine Faculty Experiences with Racial and Sexual Orientation Discrimination", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction:\n Despite the increasing diversity of individuals entering medicine, physicians from racial and sexual minority groups continue to experience bias and discrimination in the workplace. The objective of this study was to determine the current experiences and perceptions of discrimination on the basis of race and sexual orientation among academic emergency medicine (EM) faculty.\nMethods: \nWe conducted a cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of EM faculty across six programs. Survey items included the Overt Gender Discrimination at Work (OGDW) Scale adapted for race and sexual orientation, and the frequency and source of experienced and observed discrimination. Group comparisons were made using t-tests or chi-square analyses, and relationships between race or sexual orientation, and we evaluated physicians’ experiences using correlation analyses.\nResults:\n A total of 141 out of 352 (40.1%) subjects completed at least a portion of the survey. Non-White physicians reported higher mean racial OGDW scores than their White counterparts (13.4 vs 8.6; 95% confidence interval (CI) for difference, -7.7 – -2.9). Non-White EM faculty were also more likely to report having experienced discriminatory treatment based on race than were White EM faculty (48.0% vs 12.6%; CI for difference, 16.6% – 54.2%), although both groups were equally likely to report having observed race-based discrimination of another physician. EM faculty who identified as sexual minorities reported higher mean sexual minority OGDW scores than their heterosexual counterparts (11.1 vs 7.1; 95% CI for difference, -7.3 – -0.6). There were no significant differences between sexual minority and heterosexual faculty in their reports of experiencing or observing discrimination based on sexual orientation.\nConclusion: \nEM faculty from racial and sexual minority groups perceived more discrimination based on race or sexual orientation in their workplace than their majority counterparts. EM faculty regardless of race or sexual orientation were similar in their observations of discriminatory treatment of another physician based on race or sexual orientation.", "language": "", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Minority Groups" }, { "word": "sexual and gender minorities" }, { "word": "workplace" }, { "word": "racism" }, { "word": "physicians" }, { "word": "faculty" } ], "section": "Health Equity", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rc327wf", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Dave", "middle_name": "W.", "last_name": "Lu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Seattle, Washington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ava", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pierce", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dallas, Texas", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Joshua", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jauregui", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Seattle, Washington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sheryl", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Heron", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michelle", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Lall", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mitzman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, Ohio", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Danielle", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "McCarthy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nicholas", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Hartman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tania", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Strout", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tufts University School of Medicine – Maine Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Portland, Maine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2020-02-29T01:00:29Z", "date_accepted": "2020-02-29T01:00:29Z", "date_published": "2020-08-21T20:58:52Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/13616/galley/7118/download/" } ] }