BACKGROUND The concept of achievement is important to study the professional development. In medicine there are gender inequalities in career. The purpose was to know and compare the professional achievement's perceptions and attributions of female and male primary care physicians in Andalusia. METHOD Qualitative study with 12 focus groups (October 2009 to November 2010). POPULATION primary...

n engl j med 376;20 nejm.org May 18, 2017 recent survey, a majority of physicians indicated that they were very or extremely likely to buy apps extending their EHR system’s capabilities.5 Furthermore, whereas the Meaningful Use program applied only to CMS payments, we encourage private payers to also provide incentives for a standard open API as a mechanism for integrating decision-support apps...

Address reprint requests and correspondence to Debra L. Roter, DrPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: [email protected]). In February 2001, the New York Times published a story describing the plight of a male obstetrician fired from his practice ostensibly because of his inability to compete with his female colleagues in a...

PURPOSE To investigate whether there is a difference in medical student teaching evaluations for male and female clinical physician faculty. METHODS The authors examined all teaching evaluations completed by clinical students at one North American medical school in the surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and internal medicine clinical rotations from 2008 to 2012. The authors focus...

The #MeToo movement has drawn necessary attention to the sex and gender inequities that permeate many relationships, including of patient their physician. Prior research linked patient-physician discordance with inferior surgical cardiac outcomes. impact such may be magnified in medical oncology, where patients often face a life-limiting illness physicians assume role primary healthcare provide...

BACKGROUND: The nurse-doctor relationship is historically one of female nurse deference to male physician authority. We investigated the effects of physicians' sex on female nurses' behaviour. METHODS: Nurses at an urban, university based hospital completed one of two forms of a vignette-based survey in January, 2000. Each survey included four clinical scenarios. In form 1 of the questionnaire ...

background: family physician plan is known as one of the most appropriate strategies to implement rural health insurance program in the form of referral system in iran. this study aims to determine the satisfaction of family physicians and service consumers and its causes of dissatisfaction in the south of iran. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in kerman health ne...