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Abstract Details

The Color of Neurology Workforce
Research Methodology, 好色先生, and History
S17 - History of Neurology (4:24 PM-4:32 PM)
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To assess the longitudinal 10-year trend information and analyze historical gender and ethnic equity efforts and further enhance minority recruitment and retention. 
Blacks and Hispanics suffer a considerable burden of neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. Recruiting racial and ethnic minority practitioners in neurology workforce is a key element in providing healthcare access to a larger number of underrepresented minorities. Additionally, there is significant gender imbalance in certain neurological specialties. Exploring the patterns of change in race/gender of the neurology workforce is an integral step towards identifying barriers that hinder workforce diversity and developing interventions that foster patient-provider relationship.
A cross-sectional study was performed using the published ACGME Data Resource books that contains information on the number of enrolled residents in accredited US residency programs. Data was retrieved manually from the previous ACGME data books from 2007-2019 to identify the gender and racial disparities among neurology and child neurology residents. Trend analysis was done for the period between academic years 2007-2008 and 2019-2020.

Among neurology residents, a substantial rise of 58.2%, 44.7% and 28.6% was observed in African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans respectively as compared to a 44.4% rise in Caucasians. In child neurology, a rise of 61.1% and 18.1% was observed in Hispanics and African-Americans as compared to a 35.6% rise in Caucasians. The percentage of female residents in Child Neurology continues to rise with substantial fall in the percentage of male residents (39→33.2%) since the year 2007. Conversely, a rise in percentage of female residents was seen in Neurosurgery (13→22%).
Recruiting a diverse workforce can help mitigate the implicit bias and wariness of minority patients. Although the gender gap is narrowing, certain neurological specialties still continue to be male or female dominated. Training a neurology workforce that mirrors the diversity of our communities is crucial. 
Authors/Disclosures
Aminah Abdul Razzack
PRESENTER 		Ms. Abdul Razzack has nothing to disclose.