How do orthopaedic surgery residency program websites feature diversity? An analysis of 187 orthopaedic surgery programs in the United States

Samuel Cohen · Michelle X. Xiao · Thompson Zhuang · John B. Michaud · Harsh Wadhwa · Lauren M. Shapiro +1 more

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Diversity and Career in Medicine Cultural Competency in Health Care Medical Education and Admissions

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Background: The orthopaedic surgery residency program website represents a recruitment tool that can be used to demonstrate a program’s commitment to diversity and inclusion to prospective applicants. The authors assessed how orthopaedic surgery residency programs demonstrated diversity and inclusion on their program websites and whether this varied based on National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, top-40 medical school affiliation, university affiliation, program size, or geographic region. Methods: The authors evaluated 187 orthopaedic surgery residency program websites for the presence of 12 elements that represented program commitment to diversity and inclusion values, based on prior work and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recommendations. Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to assess whether NIH funding and other program characteristics were associated with commitment to diversity and inclusion on affiliated residency websites. Results: Orthopaedic surgery residency websites included a mean of 4.9±2.1 diversity and inclusion elements, with 21% (40/187) featuring a majority (7+) of elements. Top 40 NIH-funded programs (5.4±2.0) did not have significantly higher website diversity scores when compared with nontop-40 programs (4.8±2.1) (P=0.250). University-based or affiliated programs (5.2±2.0) had higher diversity scores when compared with community-based programs (3.6±2.2) (P=0.003). Conclusions: Most orthopaedic surgery residency websites contained fewer than half of the diversity and inclusion elements studied, suggesting opportunities for further commitment to diversity and inclusion. Inclusion of diversity initiatives on program websites may attract more diverse applicants and help address gender and racial or ethnic disparities in orthopaedic surgery. Level of Evidence: Level V.

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