Minority Pipeline Program in Ophthalmology: Rabb Venable Excellence in Research in conjunction with the Ophthalmology Section of the National Medical Association

少数人卓越眼科管道计划-NIH NEI R13-PA-16-294 Rabb-Vable卓越研究计划(RV)的目标是增加 在眼科和学术医学领域代表不足的少数族裔医生。这个 该计划是一个让医学生和住院医生/研究员接触榜样的流水线程序， 在医疗实践和教学、研究机会和提供指导方面所需的技能。 在NEI委员会成员Mildred MG Olivier期间，MD向该组织提出挑战，要求他们找到更多 代表少数群体(URM)提交赠款。就她而言，她申请了一项拨款， 将对增加眼科中代表性不足的少数群体的数量产生影响。 这笔赠款为自2000年以来一直存在的房车方案的继续提供资金 当医学博士Lenworth Johnson(前NEI委员会成员)启动了一项研究计划，邀请 参加全国医学会年会的医学生、住院医生/研究员 (NMA)展示他们的工作。NMA成立于1895年，因为美国医学会 该协会不允许非洲裔美国医生成为他们组织的成员。 现在有30,000多名NMA医生参加，努力消除 医疗保健。这些种族和民族差异使美国损失了1.24万亿美元，其中2290亿美元 与差异相关的医疗保健的直接成本130%的美国人口 然而，只有9%的人是医生(图1)。更少的URM医生是 专家。RV计划在安置和支持URM学生方面取得了成熟的成果 分专业培训。 图1.健康相关领域的少数群体代表2 在接下来的五年期间，房车计划预计将在其纵向成功的基础上，通过 到2021年将参与者人数扩大到60人；b)丰富双方的了解 关于差异对健康影响的学生和导师；c)招募更多的医生 导师在会议间隙与医科学生和住院医生/研究员一起工作；和d) 开发补充资金来源，以确保项目的可持续性。 1约翰·A·泊萨尔、M·肯特·克莱门斯和约瑟夫·利佐尼茨等人。阿尔..。“展望医疗开支预测 到2018年：经济衰退的影响增加了不确定性。卫生事务28，第2期(2009)：w346-w357，原文 2009年2月24日在线发布。DOI：10.1377/hlthaff.28.2.w346。 来自约翰霍普金斯大学和马里兰大学的Thomas LaVeist和他的同事们， 凯撒家族基金会受政治和经济研究联合中心委托进行的研究， 2008年。Http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-active-physicians/

Minority Excellence Pipeline Program in Ophthalmology - NIH NEI R13 – PA-16-294 The goal of the Rabb-Venable Excellence in Research Program (RV) is to increase the number of under-represented minority physicians in ophthalmology and academic medicine. The program is a pipeline process to expose medical students and resident/fellows to role models, skills needed in medical practice and teaching, research opportunities and to provide mentoring. While on NEI council, Mildred MG Olivier, MD challenged the group to find more under- represented minorities (URM) to submit grants. For her part, she applied for a grant which would have impact on increasing the number of under-represented minorities in ophthalmology. The grant funded the continuation of the RV Program which had been in existence since 2000 when Lenworth Johnson, MD (past NEI council member) launched a research program inviting medical students, residents/fellows to the Annual Meeting of the National Medical Association (NMA) to present their work. The NMA was founded in 1895 because the American Medical Association did not allow African American physicians membership to their organization. Now more than 30,000 NMA physicians participate, working to eliminate the disparities in healthcare. Those racial and ethnic disparities cost the US $1.24 trillion with $229 billion in direct cost for medical care associated with disparities.1 Thirty percent of the US population are URM, however only 9% are medical doctors (Figure 1). Even fewer URM physicians are specialists. The RV Program has proven outcomes in placing and supporting URM students in subspecialty training. Figure 1. Minority representation in health related fields.2 Over the next five year period, the RV Program expects to build on its longitudinal success by a) expanding the number of participants to 60 by 2021; b) enriching the understanding of both students and mentors of the health impacts of disparities; c) enlisting additional physician mentors to work with the medical students and residents/fellows between meetings; and d) developing sources for supplemental funding to assure program sustainability. 1 John A. Poisal, M. Kent Clemens and Joseph Lizonitz et. al.. “The Outlook Health Spending Projections Through 2018: Recession Effects Add Uncertainty.” Health Affairs 28, no.2 (2009):w346-w357, originally published online February 24, 2009. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.2.w346. 2 Thomas LaVeist And Colleagues from the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, Kaiser Family Foundation Study commissioned by The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 2008. http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-active-physicians/