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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Med. 2017 Apr;92(4):556–562. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001473

Table 1.

Characteristics of Mentored Career Development (KL2) Scholars at 48 Clinical and Translational Science Award Institutions, 200–2013

All scholars Male
scholars
Female
scholars
URM
scholarsa
Non-URM
scholars





Characteristic no. % no. % no. % no. % no. %
Totalb 914 426 487 108 757

Clinical training

  Medical doctor (MD, DO, MBBS) 620 68.1 328 77.2 291 60.0 71 65.7 517 68.6

  Nurse 32 3.5 3 0.7 29 6.0 5 4.6 27 3.6

  Psychologist 24 2.5 7 1.7 17 3.5 5 4.6 17 2.3

  Pharmacist 20 2.2 9 2.1 11 2.3 1 0.9 19 2.5

  Dentist 9 1.0 1 0.2 8 1.7 3 2.8 6 0.8

  Occupational or physical therapist 9 1.0 4 0.9 5 1.0 0 0.0 9 1.2

  Veterinarian 5 0.5 2 0.5 3 0.6 1 0.9 4 0.5

  Social worker 4 0.4 0 0.0 4 0.8 1 0.9 3 0.4

  Speech pathologist 4 0.4 1 0.2 3 0.6 1 0.9 3 0.4

  Other clinical trainingc 7 0.9 1 0.2 6 1.2 1 0.9 5 0.7

  Non-clinician PhD 177 19.4 69 16.2 108 22.3 19 17.6 144 19.1

PhD trainingd

  No 529 59.0 262 62.5 266 55.8 67 63.2 438 59.0

  Yes 368 41.0 157 37.5 211 44.2 39 36.8 304 41.0

Race

  White 593 68.7 290 71.8 302 65.9

  Black or African American 45 5.2 6 1.5 39 8.5

  American Indian or Alaska Native 2 0.2 1 0.3 1 0.2

  Asian 207 24.0 99 24.5 108 23.6

  Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 2 0.2 1 0.3 1 0.2

  >1 race 14 1.6 7 1.7 7 1.5

Ethnicity

  Non-Hispanic 809 93.4 381 94.1 427 92.8

  Hispanic or Latino 57 6.6 24 5.9 33 7.2
a

Underrepresented in medicine (URM) includes Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and Hispanic or Latino.

b

Cells may not add up to the total due to information not provided, including n=1 missing sex, n=3 missing clinical training, n=17 missing PhD training, n=51 missing race, and n=48 missing ethnicity.

c

Includes audiologist, music therapist, naturopathic doctor, nutritionist, and not specified.

d

Includes clinicians and non-clinicians. Yes indicates the individual had a PhD when she or he was appointed as a KL2 scholar.