US medical student perspectives on Asian American patient inclusion in medical education: a qualitative study

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 General characteristics of respondents included in qualitative analysis

Characteristic	Overall (N = 195)
Age (median, IQR)	25 (25, 27)
Gender
Female	105 (54%)
Male	89 (46%)
Prefer not to answer	1 (0.5%)
Medical School^a
Baylor College of Medicine	24 (12%)
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	12 (6.2%)
Harvard Medical School	33 (17%)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	31 (16%)
Medical College of Wisconsin	20 (10%)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	20 (10%)
Stanford University School of Medicine	12 (6.2%)
The Dell Medical School	11 (5.6%)
Washington University School of Medicine	32 (16%)
Reported race
Asian	84 (43%)
White	99 (51%)
Black or African American	10 (5.1%)
Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish	14 (7.2%)
Middle Eastern or North African	7 (3.6%)
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	2 (1.0%)
American Indian or Alaskan Native	3 (1.5%)
Not sure or don't know	3 (1.5%)

^aPercent Asian population surrounding each medical school include Harris County (Baylor): 7.8%, Los Angeles County (UCLA): 16.3%, Suffolk County (Harvard): 9.8%, Baltimore City and Baltimore County (Johns Hopkins): 5.4%, Milwaukee County (Medical College of Wisconsin): 5.0%, Cook County (Northwestern): 8.3%, Santa Clara County (Stanford): 39.7%, Travis County (Dell): 8.1%, St. Louis City and St. Louis County (Washington University): 4.8%. Estimates were obtained from the American Community Survey 2019 5-year Estimates Table DP05, Asians alone or in combination with one or more races [20]. The estimates for St. Louis County and Baltimore County also include St. Louis City and Baltimore City respectively as the corresponding cities have their own separate jurisdiction and tabulate their demographic population separately from the county

ISSN: 1472-6920