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Table 1 Applicant demographics by IMG status, University of Michigan Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine fellowship cohort, 2021

From: Differences in international medical graduates’ letters of recommendation by gender in pulmonary and critical care medicine: a cohort analysis

Variable

IMG Applicant N = 239

USMG Applicant N = 334

Race

 White: N (%)

51 (21.3)

191 (57.2)

 Asian: N (%)

111 (46.4)

92 (27.5)

 URiM: N (%)

42 (17.6)

21 (6.3)

 Other: N (%)

35 (14.6)

30 (9.0)

Sex

 Male: N (%)

161 (67.4)

214 (64.1)

 Female: N (%)

78 (32.6)

120 (35.9)

 Applicant total publications:a N (IQR)

5 (2,9)

4 (1,6)

 Applicant total presentations:a N (IQR)

6 (2,10)

6 (3, 10)

 CMR: N (%)

58 (24.3)

97 (29)

 Letters of recommendation: median (IQR)

3 (2,4)

3 (2,4)

Word count per letter of recommendation: mean (SD)

463.1 (277.5)

565.3 (360)

Letter writers

N = 904

N = 1280

 Woman: N (%)

209 (23.1)

361 (28.2)

 Man: N (%)

682 (75.4)

898 (70.2)

 Unknown: N (%)

13 (1.4)

21 (1.6)

  1. IMG International medical graduate, USMG United States medical graduate, URiM Underrepresented in medicine defined as per AAMC, CMR Chief medical resident, SD Standard deviation, IQR Interquartile range
  2. aApplicant research activities included peer viewed abstracts, posters, oral presentations; book chapters and online publications