Is Academic Medicine Making Mid-Career Women Physicians Invisible?

Women physicians: choosing a career in academic medicine.

PURPOSE Despite recent efforts to understand the complex process of physician career development, the medical education community has a poor understanding of why, how, and when women physicians embark on careers in academic medicine. METHOD In 2010, the authors phone-interviewed women physicians in academic medicine regarding why, how, and when they chose academic medicine careers. Project in...

International women physicians’ perspectives on choosing an academic medicine career

UNLABELLED Concerns about recruiting physicians into academic careers is an international issue. A qualitative study with United States (US) women physicians revealed insights into how, when, and why physicians choose an academic career in medicine. The current study explored international women physicians' perspectives on their career choice of academic medicine and determined if different the...

Women physicians in academic medicine.

A BSTRACT Background I conducted a study to determine whether women who graduate from medical schools are more or less likely than their male counterparts to pursue full-time careers in academic medicine and to advance to the senior ranks of medical school faculties. Methods The rates of advancement to the ranks of assistant, associate, and full professor for all U.S. medical school graduates f...

Promoting the career development of women in academic medicine.

Stories from early-career women physicians who have left academic medicine: a qualitative study at a single institution.

PURPOSE The number of women in academic medicine has steadily increased, although gender parity still does not exist and women leave academics at somewhat higher rates than men. The authors investigated the reasons why women leave careers in academic medicine. METHOD Semistructured, one-on-one interviews were conducted in 2007-2008 with 20 women physicians who had left a single academic insti...