OBJECTIVE To determine whether more Canadian family physicians are marrying other physicians and to examine the influence of physician-physician marriages on FPs' professional activities. DESIGN Secondary analysis of a population survey (mailed questionnaire) using regression analysis. SETTING Canadian family medicine. PARTICIPANTS Family physicians who responded to the 2001 National Fami...

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY Over the past few years, there has been increasing interest in the question of how couples coordinate their careers and private lives. The aim of this study was to investigate the career arrangements of physicians and their partners according to gender and parenthood status, and to compare dual-physician couples with other types of couples. METHODS Data pertaining to 414...

Physician and educator Henry Hartshorne’s manuscript medical school lecture notes serve as a remarkable record of the response by faculty women students in Philadelphia to transitions from post-bellum education scientific, laboratory-based curriculum. These archives document tensions felt throughout system due extended classroom hours competition for limited clinical rotation assignments experi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the experiences of physicians as parents and to see if there were any differences in the parenting challenges perceived by male and female physicians. DESIGN Mailed survey. SETTING Newfoundland and Labrador. PARTICIPANTS The survey was mailed to 180 male and 180 female licensed physicians, with a response rate of 60% (N = 216). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Self-reporte...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is widely recommended but underused. A physician's recommendation for CRC screening has been consistently associated with patients undergoing CRC screening, but a better understanding of factors influencing a physician's recommendation for CRC screening is needed. This study's purpose was to describe patient and physician factors assoc...

Patients and their families frequently misclassify female physicians in the Emergency Department (ED) as non-physicians. Physician misidentification impacts environment of care on multiple levels; including patient satisfaction physician well-being. Implementing “DOCTOR” badges may be a low-cost tool to rectify these problems. The study was conducted large urban academic medical center. Badges ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the performance of physician-versus self-collected specimens for high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) messenger RNA (mRNA) testing or risk factors for hrHPV mRNA positivity in physician- versus self-collected specimens. We compared the performance of hrHPV mRNA testing of physician- and self-collected specimens for detecting cytological high-grade squamous int...

A novel electronic sensor system is designed to continuously monitor the dilation of the cervix of a pregnant female approaching labour and delivery. The system is capable of wirelessly transmitting the progress of dilation to a central monitoring agency that can get in touch with the attending physician and/or the hospital of the pregnant female. Using wireless telephony, the monitoring agency...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether the sex of primary care physicians is associated with differing rates of cervical cancer and mammography screening in a contemporary multicultural context. DESIGN Structured medical record review of a retrospectively defined cohort. SETTING Academic urban primary care clinic in Montreal, Que. PARTICIPANTS Seven male physicians and 9 female physicians, and all f...

BACKGROUND Salary discrepancies between male and female physicians are well documented; however, gender-based salary differences among clinically practicing physician assistants (PAs) have not been studied since 1992 (Willis, 1992). Therefore, the objectives of the current study are to evaluate the presence of salary discrepancies between clinically practicing male and female PAs and to analyze...