TABLE 2.

Common correlates of success for URM biomedical scientists

1. Community college attendance (for those recently starting their careers)

2. Feeling prepared for transition from undergraduate to graduate training, participation in undergraduate research, and attendance at a large majority-serving institution for undergraduate degree

3. Attendance at a large majority-serving institution for graduate degree for those in academic positions

4. Publications as a postdoc, regardless of journal IF, for those in academic positions

5. Living in a home as an undergraduate where highest degree is PhD/MD or other professional degree, undergraduate research experience, feeling prepared for transition from undergraduate to graduate, and academic position

6. Family member not in science as role model