The US Supreme Court decision on affirmative action will disrupt efforts to diversify the physician–scientist workforce and requires immediate action.
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B.C. was supported by the Medical Scientist Training Program grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number T32GM007739 to the Weill Cornell–Rockefeller–Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program; the Training Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under award number T32HD060600; and the National Research Service Award Individual Fellowship award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under award number F30HD111309-01. D.D.R. and A.G.C. were supported by the Medical Scientist Training Program grant from the NIH under award number 5T32GM008333-42 awarded to the State University of New York at Stony Brook’s Medical Scientist Training Program. C.Y.T. was supported by the National Research Service Award Individual Fellowship award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under award number F30AI172230 and the Tom and Anne Smith MD-PhD Program. R.A.S. was supported by the Medical Scientist Training Program grant from the NIH under award number T32GM007280 to the Icahn School of Medicine MD-PhD Program. A.D.W. was supported by the NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program and Medical Scientist Training Program grant from the NIH under award number 3T32GM142617-02S1 to the Emory University Medical Scientist Training Program. Funding agencies were not involved in the conceptualization, design, or writing of this article or in the decision to submit it for publication.
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Ding, J.L., Christophers, B., Rupert, D.D. et al. How to diversify the dwindling physician–scientist workforce after the US affirmative action ban. Nat Med 30, 635–637 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02787-6
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