Diversity in academic medicine no. 4: Northeast consortium: Innovation in minority faculty development

Gary C. Butts, Jerry Johnson, A. Hal Strelnick, Maria L. Soto-Greene, Beverly Williams, Elizabeth Lee-Rey

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Abstract

In fiscal year 2006, the US Government abruptly and drastically reduced its funding for programs to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of academic medicine, including programs to increase the development of minority medical faculty. Anticipating this reduction, 4 such programs - the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey - New Jersey Medical School, and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - decided to pool their resources, forming the Northeast Consortium of Minority Faculty Development. An innovation in minority faculty development, the Northeast Consortium of Minority Faculty Development has succeeded in exposing faculty trainees to research and teaching that they might not have considered otherwise, expanding the number and diversity of their mentors and role models, providing them potential access to larger and different populations and databases for purposes of research, and expanding their peer contacts. After introducing the Northeast Consortium of Minority Faculty Development, this article describes the origins and goals of each member program.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)517-522
Number of pages6
JournalMount Sinai Journal of Medicine
Volume75
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2008

Keywords

  • Center of excellence
  • Diversity
  • Minority faculty of development
  • Northeast Consortium for Minority Faculty Development
  • Underrepresented minority

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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