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. 2004 Mar;19(3):259–265. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.20409.x

Table 4.

Career Satisfaction by Personal Experience of Racial/Ethnic Discrimination

Outcome Personally Experienced Discrimination (N = 230) Did Not Personally Experience Discrimination (N = 1,603) Adjusted P Value*
Mean career satisfaction score 3.2 ± 0.06 3.5 ± 0.02 < .01
Felt like a welcomed member in institution 3.3 ± 0.08 3.9 ± 0.03 < .01
Likely to leave academic medicine within 5 years§ 2.5 ± 0.11 2.3 ± 0.04 .17
*

Adjusted for medical school, specialty, minority status, gender, and years since first faculty appointment.

From McGlynn's 4-item scale. Each item was measured on a Likert scale of 1 to 5 (1 = very dissatisfied, 5 = very satisfied).

Five-point Likert scale with 1 = unwelcome, 5 = fully welcomed.

§

Five-point Likert scale with 1 = not at all likely, 5 = very likely.