Did you know that minorities and women pursuing medical careers are known to face more barriers to progress? This is the case for both – in their training process and later on in their careers.
According to a study conducted by Dr. Julie Boiko in the University of California, it was found that women were underrepresented by speakers during the grand rounds. These are presentations that are conducted by the most esteemed doctors for medical institutions and their teams.
“Speaker selections convey messages of ‘this is what a leader looks like,’ and women’s visibility in prestigious academic venues may subconsciously affect women’s desires to pursue academic medicine,” Boiko’s team warns during JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Another study in the same issue found that these minorities and women were actually considered to be much less experienced right out of training. After Arjun Dayal from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine looked at about 33,456 evaluations for doctors-in-training and residents, he found that both male and female were scored similarly during residency. The difference, however, rose when they had ended their training.
After 3 years of training, male doctors had been judged at about an average of 13% higher attainment levels as opposed to their female counterparts. “We saw this across all the levels of competencies,” said Dayal. “Female physicians were receiving poorer evaluations whether they were diagnosing a patient or fulfilling physically demanding tasks.”
Source: Studies Highlight Gender, Racial Inequalities in the Medical Profession
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