PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jetty, Anuradha
AU  - Jabbarpour, Yalda
AU  - Eden, Aimee R.
AU  - Nguyen, Dana R.
TI  - Female Family Physicians Are More Racially Diverse Than Their Male Counterparts in Federal Sites
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2022.220178R1
DP  - 2023 Jan 27
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - jabfm.2022.220178R1
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/early/2023/01/27/jabfm.2022.220178R1.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/early/2023/01/27/jabfm.2022.220178R1.full
AB  - Supporting a diverse family physician workforce is an integral component of achieving health equity. This study compared the racial/ethnic composition of Federal family physicians (Military, Veterans Administration/Department of Defense) to the entire cohort of family physicians and stratified by gender. Female family physicians serving at Federal sites were more diverse than the overall population of female family physicians and, also than their male Federal counterparts. This gendered trend among Federal physicians needs further exploration