Portrayals of African Americans in family medicine recruiting literature.
OBJECTIVE
To study portrayals of African Americans in family medicine recruiting literature on a quantitative basis.


METHODS
Survey.


METHODS
Seventy six family medicine residency recruiting brochures, from programs responding to letters requesting "information and an application" for an unrelated study.


METHODS
Numbers of African Americans portrayed as physicians, other health care professionals, patients, and other in recruiting brochures.


RESULTS
Out 2433 individuals portrayed, African Americans accounted for 4.2% of physicians, 10.8% of other health care providers, and 17% of patients. Brochures from twenty three programs, containing photographs of 502 individuals portrayed no African Americans.


CONCLUSIONS
About one third of a sample of family practice program brochures sent to resident applicants in 1992 contained no photographs of African Americans. Implications for the recruitment of minorities to family medicine programs are discussed.
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Department of Family Practice, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68198-3075, USA.
D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009329:Nebraska; D010174:Pamphlets; D012570:School Admission Criteria