Background: Within free-standing academic medical centers, women continue to be
underrepresented at upper faculty ranks and in leadership positions. A career development …

Purpose The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Drexel University
College of Medicine have designed and implemented national career development …

Background: A gender gap in leadership exists in academic medicine. Medical school
faculty rosters indicate an overrepresentation of women in entry-level positions. As positions …

Background: Three national career development programs (CDPs)—Early and Mid-Career
Programs sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Hedwig van …

Background: For more than two decades, national career development programs (CDPs)
have addressed underrepresentation of women faculty in academic medicine through …

Background: Academic medicine has initiated changes in policy, practice, and programs
over the past several decades to address persistent gender disparity and other issues …

Women physicians are underrepresented in leadership positions across medical specialties.
Understanding factors that improve women's promotion metrics may lead to career and …

Purpose. The percentage of women faculty at the professor level has remained at
approximately 11%. The medical community could benefit from knowing what is required to …

Since the early 1970s, the numbers of women entering medical school and, subsequently,
academic medicine have increased substantially. However, women faculty have not …

Objective: Women are under-represented in academia. Causative factors include
challenges of career–family integration. We evaluated factors reflecting institutional culture …