Forrest Bohler, Allison Garden, Varna Taranikanti
Analyzing diversity, equity, and inclusion content on dermatology fellowship program websites
Medical education online
background covid19 pandemic led substantial changes delivery healthcare medical education little known pandemic altered medical students perceptions regard career choice methods authors developed implemented multicenter survey evaluated medical students preferred career choice coronavirus pandemic well influence pandemicrelated factors choice survey distributed levels medical students ms nine medical schools across country november 2020 january 2021 represented convenience sample preferred career choice assessed use likert scale additional factors affecting career choice solicited degree interest pandemic well factors influencing shift treated ordinal variables compared using chisquared testing cohens kappa statistic calculated assess degree shifts interest emergency medicine among students study deemed exempt institutional review board host institution sidney kimmel medical college thomas jefferson university participating sites results total 1431 6710 213 eligible students completed survey covid pandemic cited reason changed interest specialty 193 135 students common reason specialty change students clinical experience followed desire front lines personalfamily health concerns significant association career change degree interest among students interested emergency medicine em future specialty covid pandemic well covid pandemic living immunocompromised individual significant association reduced interest em significant association em rotation completion interested students em future specialty covid pandemic covid pandemic among eminterested students whose specialty interest changed covid pandemic 34 415 became less favorable em 28 342 stayed 20 244 students became favorable em conclusions impact covid19 medical students career choice complicated matter involves personal professional factors appears trend towards less interest field em multifactorial influences related covid19 pandemic