Increasing Promotion of Women Faculty in Academic Medicine: Impact of National Career Development Programs

Perceptions of skill development of participants in three national career development programs for women faculty in academic medicine.

PURPOSE The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Drexel University College of Medicine have designed and implemented national career development programs (CDPs) to help women faculty acquire and strengthen skills needed for success in academic medicine. The authors hypothesized that skills women acquired in CDPs would vary by career stage and program attended. METHOD In 2011, t...

Promoting the career development of women in academic medicine.

Career development for women in academic medicine: Multiple interventions in a department of medicine.

OBJECTIVE To determine the gender-based career obstacles for women in an academic department of medicine and to report the interventions to correct such obstacles (resulting from the evaluation) and the results of these interventions. DESIGN Intervention study, before-after trial, with assessment of faculty concerns and perceived change through structured, self-administered questionnaires. ...

Racial and ethnic disparities in faculty promotion in academic medicine.

CONTEXT Previous studies have suggested that minority medical school faculty are at a disadvantage in promotion opportunities compared with white faculty. OBJECTIVE To compare promotion rates of minority and white medical school faculty in the United States. DESIGN AND SETTING Analysis of data from the Association of American Medical Colleges' Faculty Roster System, the official data system...

An index to characterize female career promotion in academic medicine

BACKGROUND Imbalances in female career promotion are a key factor of gender disparities at the workplace. They may lead to stress and stress-related diseases including burnout, depression or cardiovascular diseases. Since this problem cannot be generalized and varies between different fields, new approaches are needed to assess and describe the magnitude of the problem in single fields of work....