title: Status of Tenure Among Black and Latino Faculty in Academic Medicine.
abstract: Tenure has been used for years to recruit, promote, and retain faculty in higher education and has been associated with job security and academic freedom. Absence of tenure and not being in tenure-earning tracks is grouped with the challenges faced by underrepresented minorities in academic medicine. Those challenges include being found at the assistant professor rank more often, having more clinical responsibilities, and not being in leadership positions as often as compared to non-minority faculty. The role of tenure and tenure tracks is unclear as it relates to the presence of minority faculty. This article presents a look at the status of tenure among black and Latino faculty in academic medicine at US medical schools.
authors.affiliation: Center for Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Medicine, Family Medicine and Rural Health, Florida State University College of Medicine, 1115 West Call Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA. kendall.campbell@med.fsu.edu.
authors.forename: Kendall M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.affiliation: Center for Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Medicine, Family Medicine and Rural Health, Florida State University College of Medicine, 1115 West Call Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA.
authors.forename: José E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Naomi C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Brownstein
authors.affiliation: Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Zedeena E
authors.initials: ZE
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D004651:Employment; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups
keywords: Academic medicine; Black; Faculty; Latino; Tenure; Underrepresented minority