Posts made in September, 2012

GAP YEARS GIVEN NEW PERSPECTIVES At a recent academy meeting a young woman, whom I did not previously know, collared me and told me she needed advice. “I really want to do a fellowship, but because I had my baby last year, just when everyone...

Viewpoint #1.  Training programs might say: we are headed for a major league collision in the training of women physicians.  Soon 50% of all trainees will be women, and in some specialties, such as OB/GYN, they will be 80-90% of the residents in...

Deeply ingrained gender traits make it difficult for many female emergency physicians to successfully negotiate their contracts. Here are five negotiating pitfalls, and strategies for breaking the cycle.

Where Women Remodel the House of Medicine. For decades we have been told that as the number of women increases, women doctors will finally be fully (and fairly) accepted into the medical workplace.  But after decades of having “enough women...