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 …

Differences in income between male and female academic physicians are well known, but
differences for community physicians and career differences in income have not been …

In 1960, only about 5 percent of medical students in the United States were women; today,
the numbers of women and men in medical school are approximately equal. This apparent …

PURPOSE–To investigate similarities and differences between physicians in primary care
and non-primary care specialties on performance measures prior to, during, and after …

METHODS The goal of the AAFP was to develop a database of personal and professional
characteristics of family practice residency graduates. In the summer of 1979 questionnaires …

Reluctance to train women for medical careers has been justified by the failure of women to
use their education. Using data from studies of physician practice patterns and of …

Hypothesis We conducted this study to determine whether concerns expressed by male and
female surgeons at 1 academic center are generally reflective of broader concerns for …

Over the past twenty-five years, steadily increasing numbers of women have graduated as
physicians, in sufficient numbers to be well represented in senior and leadership positions in …

Background: Given the disparity between proportions of minority in the general population
and in the physician workforce and the projected increase in the minority population, it is …

The 1970s was a decade of remarkable growth for women in academic medicine. The
percentage of women entering medical school, the number of women on medical-school …