Category : Organizational Reform

Even without a guidebook or step-by-step plan, our program emerged first from a perceived, and then, from a real need.  Using the monthly themes from our discussions, surveying the group about their interests, and then reading the literature for...

Mentoring is about building relationships that help guide the newbie through the labyrinth of experiences a physician faces.  Many women have men as mentors for those areas that were considered gender neutral.  But for the specific issues that...

Almost 50% of residents are women.  It is estimated that 20% of them will become pregnant during their training.  Is this a cause for alarm? Program directors wonder: Who will cover the call schedule? Can the resident finish her educational...

Once upon a time a doctor first attended 3 or 4 years of college, then finished 3 or 4 years of medical school, trudged through 1 to 8 years of residency training to hang out “a shingle,” and finally begin to practice medicine, usually in solo...

The “best” medical outcomes result from the right intervention, at the right time for the right person. Increasing expectations from patients, third party payers, and hospitals demand from physicians almost super-human expertise, faster response...

It’s no secret that women and men are different—they think differently, work differently, produce, and re-produce differently. And it’s no surprise that the once male-dominated healthcare workplace was, and continues, in many ways, to be...