National First Gen & Low-Income in Medicine Assoc.
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National First Gen & Low-Income in Medicine Assoc.
@FGLIMed
We are an association of first-generation college graduates and/or low-income medical students, physicians, faculty, & administrators.


1/ Excited to share our new study @JAMA_current tldr🚨the percent of low-income medical school applicants & matriculants is decreasing ja.ma/3VUvNUA🚨 1⃣ Thank you to the team @DowinHugh @tonyafancher @DrHyacinthMason @mayurdesai123 Sarwat Chaudhry @FGLIMed 2⃣ 🧵below





Remember 4th Year Med Students: If you need to revisit a recent talk or presentation check out our YouTube Page. ESPECIALLY our recent Road to Residency where you can go over various specialties and how to stand out youtube.com/c/Tour4Diversi… @SNMA @LmsaNational





In our latest @JAMANetworkOpen on the leaky pathway in medicine, we found that URiM, esp low-income URiM students are significantly more likely to go UNMATCHED, even after adjusting for USMLE Step 2 scores @acgme @LmsaNational @anams1975 @SNMA @FGLIMed shorturl.at/oQW03








This cohort study found that the prevalence of inequality in attrition rates across individual and structural measures of marginalization warrants systemic and structural reform. ja.ma/3NSifDu






