Gender and academic medicine: impacts on the health workforce

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7469.792

BMJ 2004;329:792-795 (2 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7469.792

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Gender and academic medicine: impacts on the health workforce

Laura Reichenbach, research scientist¹, Hilary Brown, programme coordinator²

¹ Harvard Centre for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA, ² Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY 10018, USA

Correspondence to: L Reichenbach laura@hsph.harvard.edu

Recent discussions about the "feminisation of medicine" raisecritical questions for how academic medicine deals with genderissues. Addressing the gender dimensions of enrolment, curriculum,and promotion practices in academic medicine may be a good startingpoint

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Introduction

To be effective, the campaign to revitalise academic medicinemust address the gender dimensions of how doctors are selected,trained, and promoted. Existing research on gender and academicmedicine has primarily examined the role of female physicians,the "feminisation of medicine,"^1
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3 and the needs of femalepatients.⁴ Although these are important, they do not representthe spectrum of gender dimensions affecting academic medicineand the range of challenges facing decision makers. Furthermore,issues of gender and academic medicine also concern developingcountries around the world.

Academic medicine has the opportunity to improve the quantityand quality of the health workforce as a means of strengtheningthe broader health system. To support this approach, the fieldmust recognise that healthcare providers are not a homogeneousgroup but individuals facing choices throughout their careersthat influence their selection of specialty and where and howthey provide health care. Gender plays an important . . . [Full text of this article]

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