Women and Academic Medicine, 2020

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...

Bouncing Up: Resilience and Women in Academic Medicine.

Lone woman in a sea of suits It is a miracle I am here. I mean that both figuratively and literally. On a cool March day in Chicago in 1980, I waited anxiously with my Rush University classmates to learn where we matched for residency. Would I match to UCLA? UC San Diego? UCSF? One after one, the names were ticked offdexcept mine. The speakers made it through the pomp and circumstance of their ...

Changing the culture of academic medicine to eliminate the gender leadership gap: 50/50 by 2020.

Central to the daily struggles that successful working women face is the misalignment of the current work culture and the values of the workforce. In addition to contributing to work-life integration conflicts, this disconnect perpetuates the gender leadership gap. The dearth of women at the highest ranks of academic medicine not only sends a clear message to women that they must choose between...

[Academic medicine and care medicine].

En los últimos años, quienes hemos trabajado en los ámbitos de la salud, la educación y el desarrollo social hemos podido constatar la importancia creciente de la compleja relación que hay entre la medicina académica, la salud de la población, la medicina asistencial y los valores sociales. Todos ellos se nutren recíprocamente y unos dan mayor pertinencia a los otros. Esta trama ha recibido, a ...

Promoting the career development of women in academic medicine.