TY - JOUR
T1 - Diversity in academic medicine no. 4
T2 - Northeast consortium: Innovation in minority faculty development
AU - Butts, Gary C.
AU - Johnson, Jerry
AU - Strelnick, A. Hal
AU - Soto-Greene, Maria L.
AU - Williams, Beverly
AU - Lee-Rey, Elizabeth
PY - 2008/12/1
Y1 - 2008/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Center of excellence
KW - Diversity
KW - Minority faculty of development
KW - Northeast Consortium for Minority Faculty Development
KW - Underrepresented minority
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U2 - 10.1002/msj.20082
DO - 10.1002/msj.20082
M3 - Article
C2 - 19021212
AN - SCOPUS:57149101145
SN - 0027-2507
VL - 75
SP - 517
EP - 522
JO - Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
JF - Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
IS - 6
ER -