Development and Validation of the Professional Readiness in Diversity and Equity Scale: Protocol for a Scale Validation Study

Nigel Sherriff   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Massimo Mirandola   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Laetitia Zeeman   ¹ , PhD ;   Francesco Amaddeo   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Ann C Zumwalt   ⁴ , PhD ;   Sharon M Coleman   ⁵ , MPH, MSPT ;   Nina Cesare   ⁵ , PhD ;   Carl Streed Jr   ⁶ , MD, MPH ;   Jörg Huber   ¹ , PhD ;   Mandi Pratt-Chapman   ⁷ , PhD ;   Dustin Z Nowaskie   ⁸ , MD ;   Markus Paul Bidell   ^{9 *} , PhD

¹ Centre for Transforming Sexuality & Gender, School of Education, Sport, and Health Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, England, United Kingdom

² Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Verona, Italy

³ Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Verona, Italy

⁴ Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics, Center for Health Data Science, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

⁷ Cancer Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States

⁸ Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁹ Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States

*these authors contributed equally