Ethnic minority medical students are “significantly disadvantaged” by current system, finds UK study

Medical students from ethnic minority groups are “significantly disadvantaged by the current UK medical education system,” with clear differences in academic achievement seen between students from different ethnicities, researchers have said.1Using the UK Medical Education Database, researchers from the University of Warwick and Imperial College London looked at over 16 000 students from the UK enrolled at 33 medical schools in 2012, 2013, and 2014. The team used students’ scores from their UK Foundation Programme application (completed as they exit medical school) to assess the awarding gap (sometimes referred to as the attainment gap) between black, Asian, and other ethnic minority students and white students. They found significant differences in the scores between these groups and called for urgent action to “close the gap” and reverse the “career long disadvantage” faced by ethnic minority doctors in the UK.The retrospective cohort study, published in BMJ Open, used ethnicity groupings from the…
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