Study finds no sign that gap in medical training attainment by ethnicity is shrinking

Trainee doctors from some ethnic backgrounds are continuing to experience differential attainment in undergraduate medical training linked to their ethnicity, despite efforts to reduce the gap, a study has found.1Researchers from King’s College London attempted to quantify differential attainment by ethnicity in undergraduate medical assessments and evaluate the effects of institutional efforts over the past decade to reduce the attainment gap.Their findings, published in BMJ Open, indicate that, despite attempts to narrow the gap through measures such as expanding access for black and Asian students and reframing the medical curriculum, differences have remained unchanged over the past seven years.James Galloway, an academic rheumatologist and senior lecturer at King’s College London and a lead author of the study, told The BMJ, “That performance gap hasn’t lessened over time. And it looks like for some ethnic groups . . . that the gap actually widens as they go through studies, particularly in…
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