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. 2004 Oct 2;329(7469):792-5.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.792.

Gender and academic medicine: impacts on the health workforce

Laura Reichenbach  1 , Hilary Brown
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Gender and academic medicine: impacts on the health workforce

Laura Reichenbach et al. BMJ. .

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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