Bisexual, gay and lesbian medical students are more likely to leave school before graduation, a new study says.
Bisexual medical students were twice as likely to drop out or be dismissed from medical school, and gay and lesbian students were 47% more likely, according to findings published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open.
"Although future studies need to examine the cause of these disparities in attrition, LGB students experience discrimination within medical training environments, which may lead to risk of attrition," wrote the research team led by Dr. Sarwat Chaudhry, associate dean for student research at Yale School of Medicine.
For this study, researchers reviewed 2014 to 2017 data from the Association of American Medical Colleges to track more than 45,000 registered medical students.
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