Unintended consequences of the Flexner report: women in pediatrics.

نویسندگان

  • Shari L Barkin
  • Elena Fuentes-Afflick
  • Jeffrey P Brosco
  • Arleen M Tuchman
چکیده

MPH,b Jeffrey P. Brosco, MD, PhD,c and Arleen M. Tuchman, PhDd aDepartment of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; Departments of bPediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California; cDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Miami, Miami, Florida; and dDepartment of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Address correspondence to Shari L. Barkin, MD, MSHS, 8232 Doctor’s Office Tower, 2200 Children’s Way, Nashville, TN 37232-9225. E-mail: shari.barkin@ vanderbilt.edu

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Pediatrics

دوره 126 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010