This article in JAMA Network segments the medicine of the past and future into three eras. Era 1, dating back to Hippocrates' time, elevated the profession of...
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Era 3 for Medicine and Health Care
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Safe Patient Handling and Mobility: Interprofessional National Standards
The American Nurses Association released a handbook laying out interprofessional standards on Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM). The primary topics of this...
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Gender Differences in Academic Medicine: Retention, Rank, and Leadership Comparisons from the National Faculty Survey
This study examined the validity of the assertion that women in academic medicine do not advance or remain in their careers in parity with men. To do so, the...
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Gender differences in time spent on parenting and domestic responsibilities by high-achieving young physician-researchers
A nationwide postal survey was completed by 1049 physician recipients of National Institute of Health K08 or K23 awards between 2006 and 2009. The self-report...
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Sex differences in academic rank in US medical schools in 2014
The following article, published in JAMA, analyzes sex differences in faculty rank among 91,073 US academic physicians. Sex differences in faculty rank were linked...
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Gender Disparity Task Force Report from the American Academy of Neurology
This report and recommendations was written by the Gender Disparity Task Force of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) to discuss issues related to the...
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Prevalence and correlates of harassment among US women physicians
The following study analyzes responses concerning gender-based and sexual harassment from the Women Physicians' Health Study, a nationally distributed questionnaire...
Equal work for unequal pay: the gender reimbursement gap for healthcare providers in the United States.
Over 3 million publicly available Medicare reimbursement claims for calendar year 2012 were analyzed and then compared to reimbursements received by male and female...
Social incentives for gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations: sometimes it does hurt to ask.
Gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations may be explained by differential treatment of men and women when they attempt to negotiate. In...
Perceived discrimination experienced by physician mothers and desired workplace changes: a cross-sectional survey
Published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the following study aims to understand how motherhood specifically affects perceived discrimination among women physicians...
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