[JDE] Dental school admissions representation of race/ethnicity between 2011 and 2023

[Mr.Smile12]

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Longitudinal Racial and Ethnic Representation in US Dental Schools Between 2011 and 2023​

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We determined longitudinal representation by race and ethnicity among first-year students and graduates in US dental schools from 2011–2012 to 2022–2023 and compared race and ethnicity representation between private and public schools from 2015–2016 to 2022–2023.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jdd.13861

 

[toothking03]

Good read, it's unfortunate that in a decade there was a slight improvement. Also, diversity of a class varies from school to school and the data is available for that.

 

[New_Vegas]

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[D1Bound]

Good read, it's unfortunate that in a decade there was a slight improvement. Also, diversity of a class varies from school to school and the data is available for that.

Why is diversity an improvement?

 

[capsoak]

why cant it just be based on talent, and not the color my skin?!?!?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Well, the ADA admits it's probably not good to have a dental workforce that does not represent or serve the US population. You can learn more about it with Becoming a Student Doctor (for those who are applying or will be in the early phase of their education).

 

[D1Bound]

Well, the ADA admits it's probably not good to have a dental workforce that does not represent or serve the US population. You can learn more about it with Becoming a Student Doctor (for those who are applying or will be in the early phase of their education).

If the ADA desires the dental workforce to be representative of the population, why are dental schools over 60% women in many cases?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

If the ADA desires the dental workforce to be representative of the population, why are dental schools over 60% women in many cases?

That only happened almost 10 years ago and aligns with the demographic of majority women in college/university grads. We can ask the same about vet med which did a full transition to mostly women classes a little over a decade ago. Of course, I need to look up my history of higher education to know when it became more the norm to have co-ed university student bodies.

In some future memoir, I want to remember the day I reported to the faculty my incoming class stats as being the first class where women/females outnumbered men/males.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Also on the medicine side, they now have a majority of female/ women applicants and matriculants.

The State of Women in Academic Medicine 2023-2024: Progressing Toward Equity

Gender equity is key to achieving excellence in academic medicine. This report will help readers understand the national percentages of women at key career junctures, identify specific opportunities to foster greater equity, and data to create actionable plans to improve the academic medicine...

store.aamc.org

 

[D1Bound]

“Gender equity is key in achieving excellence in academic medicine.” Again, there’s another statement with absolutely nothing to back it up.