Gender and academic medicine: impacts on the health workforce
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Gender and academic medicine: impacts on the health workforce
Abstract
Recent discussions about the “feminisation of medicine” raise critical questions for how academic medicine deals with gender issues. Addressing the gender dimensions of enrolment, curriculum, and promotion practices in academic medicine may be a good starting point
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Academic medicine: who is it for? Country of origin affects potential career in UK academic medicine.BMJ. 2005 Feb 12;330(7487):363; discussion 363-4. doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.363-a. BMJ. 2005. PMID: 15705709 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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Academic medicine: who is it for? Data on sex are important for the development of academic medicine.BMJ. 2005 Feb 12;330(7487):363; discussion 363-4. doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.363. BMJ. 2005. PMID: 15705710 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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