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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Oriaku Kas‐Osoka

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Associate Professor

UAMS

Also affiliated: Arkansas Children's Hospital (2024–2025); University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2018–2023); University Medical Center (2021); University of Illinois Chicago (2023); University Hospital and Clinics (2021)

Faculty Researcher

4 h-index 11 pubs 100 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

  • Humans
  • Internship and Residency
  • Female
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Pediatrics
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Male
  • United States
  • Adolescent
  • Mass Screening
  • Adult
  • Education, Medical, Graduate
  • Internal Medicine
  • Minority Groups
  • Child

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ORCID

OverviewAI-generated summary

Oriaku Kas‐Osoka's research investigates the experiences of pediatric residents within graduate medical education, with a particular focus on issues of belonging, discrimination, and professional fulfillment. Their work, often conducted under the "Upholding Our PROMISE" initiative, utilizes surveys and cross-sectional studies to gather data from residents across the United States.

Recent publications examine how underrepresentation impacts belonging and the desire to remain at one's home institution. Kas‐Osoka also studies the adolescent medicine workforce supply and the creation of quality improvement training roadmaps within pediatric residency programs. Their scholarship metrics include an h-index of 4, with 11 total publications and 97 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 4
  • Publications: 11
  • Citations: 100

Selected Publications

  • Upholding Our PROMISE: National Survey of Pediatrics Residents’ Experiences with Discrimination, Burnout, Belonging, Professional Fulfillment, and Career Plans (2025)
    The Journal of Pediatrics DOI OpenAlex
  • Creating a Roadmap for Longitudinal Quality Improvement Training in a Pediatric Residency Program (2025)
    Academic Pediatrics DOI OpenAlex
  • FUEL-ING A PATH FORWARD: IMPACTING UNDERREPRESENTED IN MEDICINE FACULTY IN MEDICAL EDUCATION (2025)
    Academic Pediatrics DOI OpenAlex
  • Upholding our PROMISE: Increased representation is not enough to foster belonging in graduate medical education (2024)
    Medical Education 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Child Health Needs and the Adolescent Medicine Workforce Supply: 2020–2040 (2024)
    PEDIATRICS 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Upholding Our PROMISE: Underrepresented in Medicine Pediatric Residents' Perspectives on Interventions to Promote Belonging (2023)
    Academic Medicine 16 citations DOI OpenAlex

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