Fiona Patterson

May 10, 2024 | asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jennifer Cleland |Elizabeth Hughes |Fiona Patterson |Jordan Buxton

1 INTRODUCTION Globally, young people with the academic and personal attributes to successfully study medicine and become doctors experience disadvantages associated with sociodemographic factors such as ethnicity, minority group membership and/or low income. Governments have attempted to address this issue and increase the diversity of medical students, often referred to as widening participation (WP) to medicine, via macrolevel workforce policy.