Seventy-eight percent of baseline respondents (3492) completed a follow-up survey in their final semester (spring 2014). DesignĪ sample of 4732 first-year medical students was recruited from a stratified random sample of 49 US medical schools in the fall of 2010 (81% response 55% of eligible), of which 94.5% (4473) identified as heterosexual. To determine whether medical school curriculum, role modeling, diversity climate, and contact with sexual minorities predict bias among graduating students against gay and lesbian people. Efforts to address sexual orientation bias in new physicians are hampered by a lack of knowledge of school factors that influence bias among students.
Implicit and explicit bias among providers can influence the quality of healthcare.
