Abstract
Objective: To describe differences in urology mentorship exposure for medical students across race/ethnicity and to explore how much potential mentees valued the importance of race-concordant mentorship. Methods: All medical students at UCLA received a cross-sectional survey. Dependent variables were perceived quality of mentorship in urology and association between race-concordant mentorship and perceived importance of race-concordant mentorship. Mentors were self-selected by medical students. Variables were compared across race/ethnicity using descriptive statistics and multivariate analyses. Subset analyses looking at race-concordance between mentor and student was performed using stratified Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel tests. This was performed to determine if there were differences, across race/ethnicity, in rating of importance of having a race-concordant mentor. Results: The likelihood of having a urologist as a mentor was similar across race/ethnicity. Under-Represented in Medicine (URiM) students were more likely to report that having a mentor of the same race/ethnicity was extremely important (Asian 9%, Black 58%, Latinx 55% and White 3%, P <.001) compared to their non-URiM peers who were more likely to rate having a race-concordant mentor as not at all important (Asian 34%, Black 5%, Latinx 8%, White 79%, P <.001). URiM students with race-concordant mentors were still more likely to rate having a mentor of the same race/ethnicity as extremely/very important (73%) compared to their non-URiM peers (9%, P =.001). URiM students with race-discordant mentors also rated importance of mentors of the same race/ethnicity as extremely/very important (67%) compared to their non-URiM peers (11%, P =.006). Conclusion: URiM medical students regard race-concordant mentorship as extremely important. Interventions addressing mentor racial/ethnic concordance and those promoting culturally responsive mentorship may optimize recruitment of URiM students into urology.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 41-48 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Urology |
| Volume | 171 |
| Early online date | 20 Oct 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Financial Disclosure: The authors gratefully acknowledge the critical funding support of the Office of the Vice Dean for Education and the Executive Director of the David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) at UCLA Anti-Racism Roadmap as well as the funding support from the UCLA Office of Equity Diversity and Inclusion. This funding permitted providing $10 Amazon gift cards to all medical students who completed the survey. Supplemental funds to support data analysis was provided by the Department of Urology at DGSOM at UCLA.
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Funding
Financial Disclosure: The authors gratefully acknowledge the critical funding support of the Office of the Vice Dean for Education and the Executive Director of the David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) at UCLA Anti-Racism Roadmap as well as the funding support from the UCLA Office of Equity Diversity and Inclusion. This funding permitted providing $10 Amazon gift cards to all medical students who completed the survey. Supplemental funds to support data analysis was provided by the Department of Urology at DGSOM at UCLA. The authors wish to thank the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) Urology Interest Group Leaders (Tommy Jiang and Abhishek Sharma), and all the DGSOM medical school class presidents: Christos Spiros Haveles, Sarah Biedemariam Andebrhan, Russyan Mark S. Mabeza, Vivian J. Hu, Chinonyelum P. [Nonye] Ikeanyi, Ami Hayashi and Rohini Nott, Alan Li. The authors also acknowledge the support of the UCLA Medical Education Fellowship team who generously shared their perspectives in the study design. Financial Disclosure: The authors gratefully acknowledge the critical funding support of the Office of the Vice Dean for Education and the Executive Director of the David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) at UCLA Anti-Racism Roadmap as well as the funding support from the UCLA Office of Equity Diversity and Inclusion. This funding permitted providing $10 Amazon gift cards to all medical students who completed the survey. Supplemental funds to support data analysis was provided by the Department of Urology at DGSOM at UCLA.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Department of Urology | |
| Office of the Vice Dean for Education | |
| University of California, Los Angeles | |
| David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles |