Trends in Race/Ethnicity of Pediatric Residents and Fellows from 2007-2019

Background: The necessity for diversity in the medical workforce is well established. In academic medicine, several studies across various specialties have demonstrated modest improvements in underrepresented in medicine (UIM) trainee representation over time. To our knowledge, trends in racial/ethnic diversity of pediatric residents and subspecialty fellows has yet to be described. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study of race/ethnicity in pediatric residents and subspecialty fellows using publicly available Graduate Medical Education census reports from 2007 (when race/ethnicity data were first included) to 2019. We manually extracted race/ethnicity data for pediatric residents and fellows across 15 subspecialties. We defined UIM using …