title: Increasing Family Medicine Faculty Diversity Still Lags Population Trends.
abstract: Faculty diversity has important implications for medical student diversity. The purpose of this analysis is to describe trends in racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in family medicine (FM) departments and compare these trends to the diversity of matriculating medical students, the diversity of all medical school faculty, and the population in general.
  
  
  
  We used the Association of American Medical Colleges Faculty Roster to describe trends in proportions of female and minorities under-represented in medicine (URM) in FM department full-time faculty in U.S. MD-granting medical schools.
  
  
  
  Among FM faculty, the proportions of female and URM faculty have grown more than 2-fold between 1980 and 2015. Increasing faculty rank was associated with lower diversity across the study period. FM departments had higher female and URM proportions than the average of all other specialties, but URM representation still lagged population trends.
  
  
  
  Although FM faculty diversity is growing over time, continued attention to URM representation should remain a priority.
authors.affiliation: From the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC (IMX); University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (MAN); National Center for Primary Care, Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (AHG); Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (WRL, AWB). ixierali@aamc.org.
authors.forename: Imam M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Xierali
authors.affiliation: From the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC (IMX); University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (MAN); National Center for Primary Care, Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (AHG); Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (WRL, AWB).
authors.forename: Marc A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Nivet
authors.affiliation: From the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC (IMX); University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (MAN); National Center for Primary Care, Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (AHG); Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (WRL, AWB).
authors.forename: Anne H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Gaglioti
authors.affiliation: From the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC (IMX); University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (MAN); National Center for Primary Care, Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (AHG); Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (WRL, AWB).
authors.forename: Winston R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Liaw
authors.affiliation: From the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC (IMX); University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (MAN); National Center for Primary Care, Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (AHG); Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (WRL, AWB).
authors.forename: Andrew W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Bazemore
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D005194:Family Practice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States
keywords: Ethnic Groups; Medical Faculty; Medical Schools; Medical Students; Minority Groups