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Tenure has been used for years to recruit, promote, and retain faculty in higher education and has been associated with job security and academic freedom. Absence of tenure and not being in tenure-earning tracks is grouped with the challenges faced by underrepresented minorities in academic medicine. Those challenges include being found at the assistant professor rank more often, having more clinical responsibilities, and not being in leadership positions as often as compared to non-minority faculty. The role of tenure and tenure tracks is unclear as it relates to the presence of minority faculty. This article presents a look at the status of tenure among black and Latino faculty in academic medicine at US medical schools.
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Comparison of Tenurable Odds for All Faculty Including Those with Imputed Tenure and URMM Status Odds ratios, adjusted for sex and rank, of having tenure or a tenure-track position comparing URMM faculty to non-URMM faculty, including faculty with imputed URMM status or imputed tenure status. Imputation uncovered associations at the associate professor level as well as at the assistant professor level. Otherwise, results were similar whether we imputed data as in this figure or not as in Figure 1 (DOCX 79.9kb)
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Campbell, K.M., Rodríguez, J.E., Brownstein, N.C. et al. Status of Tenure Among Black and Latino Faculty in Academic Medicine. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 4, 134–139 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-016-0210-7
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