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Gratification of patient care at Rheum Clinic at Montefiore…worth it any day!

Valle A, Mahmood SN. The current state of ultrasound training in United States rheumatology fellowships. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2023 Mar 27. doi: 10.1002/acr.25120.

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2023 ACR Educational Exchange

2023 Walk to Cure Lupus

Race, Ethnicity, and Disparities in Rheumatology Educational Materials (2021) “Of the 1,043 patient images included in the study, 13.4% had dark skin, 84.0% light skin, and 2.6% indeterminate skin color.”

“Dark skin was underrepresented significantly in rheumatology educational materials and lupus images when compared with the representation of Asian, Native American, and Black individuals within the US Census population and in published studies of patients with systemic lupus.”

“Darker skin tones are significantly underrepresented in major rheumatology clinical image banks.”

“Improving representation of racial and ethnic minorities in rheumatology education materials can better equip trainees to recognize and diagnose cutaneous manifestations of rheumatic diseases in these groups.”

Source: Strait A, et al. Arthritis Care Res. 2021;doi:10.1002/acr.24602. Olson RM, Feldman CH, et al. Arthritis Care Res. 2021;doi:10.1002/acr.24645.

“Diversity: From Concepts to Outcomes” From ACR CONVERGENCE 2020 “Racial disparity gaps are glaring in U.S. medical schools, which show flat, relatively low matriculation rates for Black males over the past 35 years, Dr. Nivet said.”

“These gaps appear in professional rheumatology ranks as well: Only 0.8% of practicing adult rheumatologists are Black and 8.5% are non-white Hispanic, while 73.6% are white, according to the 2015 ACR Workforce Study of U.S. rheumatologists and rheumatology professionals.”

References: Laurencin C, Murray M. An American crisis: The lack of Black men in medicine. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2017 Jun;4(3):317–321. American College of Rheumatology. (2016). 2015 Workforce Study of Rheumatology Specialists in the United States.

Source: the-rheumatologist.org/article/divers…