Increasing Diversity in Orthopaedics: The Problem, Strategies, and Solutions.

It is important to educate and equip the orthopaedic community with tools to address health care disparities and improve orthopaedic specialty recruitment for racial minorities. How patients and providers are affected by systemic racism in healthcare and what that means in orthopaedic surgery, methods to identify bias and improve access to orthopaedic care for racial minorities, and how to structure a program and department environment to encourage and promote diversity are important topics of discussion.