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Underrepresented in Medicine Recruitment: Rationale, Challenges, and Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Psychiatry Residency Programs

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Acknowledgments

This paper was adapted from Pierre JM, Lu F, Carter A, Stewart C, Mahr F, and Madaan V. “Underrepresented Minority Recruitment: Rationale, Challenges, and Strategies” Workshop Session 2.14, 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, Tucson, AZ; March 14, 2014. The authors wish to thank Drs. Colin Stewart and Francis Lu for their contributions.

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  1. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Joseph M. Pierre & Andrea Carter

  2. Penn State College Of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA

    Fauzia Mahr

  3. University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Vishal Madaan

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Pierre, J.M., Mahr, F., Carter, A. et al. Underrepresented in Medicine Recruitment: Rationale, Challenges, and Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Psychiatry Residency Programs. Acad Psychiatry 41, 226–232 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0499-x

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