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 …

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

Objective: Gender parity lags in academic medicine. We applied the Rank Equity Index (REI)
to compare the longitudinal progress of women's academic medicine careers. We …

Objective.—To assess possible explanations for the finding that the percentage of women
medical school faculty members holding associate or full professor rank remains well below …

Women currently represent nearly half of all medical school graduates and assistant
professors at academic institutions. Despite the large pool of women in the academic …

Background In 2000, a landmark study showed that women who graduated from US medical
schools from 1979 through 1997 were less likely than their male counterparts to be …

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 …

Purpose To assess attitudes of female faculty about career progress, resources for career
development, and values related to academic success and recognition. Method In 1997, the …

Objective.—To determine the gender-based career obstacles for women in an academic
department of medicine and to report the interventions to correct such obstacles (resulting …