There have been growing national efforts to diversify the radiology workforce, but are those efforts having an impact? Xiao Wu, MD, a resident at the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, investigated the question and shared her findings in a journal article and a podcast.
The paper, “Diversity in Radiology: Current Status and Trends Over the Past Decade,” was first-authored by Dr. Wu and is published in Radiology. The senior author, Dr. Ajay Malhotra, professor of radiology at the Yale School of Medicine, joined Dr. Wu and podcast host Dr. Linda Chu, associate professor of radiology at Johns Hopkins Medicine, to discuss diversity on Radiology Podcasts from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
“Studies in the past have shown that patients feel more comfortable with a more diverse group of physicians,” said Dr. Wu on the podcast….
