Women In Medicine

Women are more likely to feel uncomfortable than men to ask for more time on adjustable deadlines at work or school, leading to higher rates of time stress and burnout, according to study results.

Healio’s Women in Oncology series has addressed a multitude of gender equity issues in medicine among health care professionals, but Kristina Jenei, BSN, MSc, has also found that underrepresentation of women is present among trials.

In a Healio Gastroenterology video exclusive, Lavanya Viswanathan, MD, MS, FACP, of the David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, shared her untraditional path to leadership.

The William L. McGuire Lecture Award will be presented to Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, FAACR, at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium this month.

Balancing the responsibilities of being both a caregiver and a health care professional requires flexibility, especially considering the way the world has changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Finding the right way to balance work and life as a physician is one thing for an individual, but some women also have the additional responsibilities of a caregiver to consider.

A first-ever nationwide analysis of full-time academic medicine faculty revealed disparities in pay for men and women and across ethnicities and races, with women earning less than men regardless of race and ethnicity.

Women in medicine were more likely than men to take on childcare responsibilities and report burnout, mental health symptoms and work-life imbalance during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to recent findings from two separate studies.

New findings suggest that male physicians may have biases toward same-sex referrals, as they were more likely to refer patients to male surgeons than female surgeons.

The Association of American Medical Colleges, or AAMC, recently published the first-ever, national-level analysis of full-time faculty salaries in academic medicine by gender, race and ethnicity.