Barriers and Facilitators to Clinical Practice Development in Men and Women Surgeons.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Many early-career surgeons struggle to develop their clinical practices, leading to high rates of burnout and attrition. Furthermore, women in surgery receive fewer, less complex, and less remunerative referrals compared with men. An enhanced understanding of the social and structural barriers to optimal growth and equity in clinical practice development is fundamental to guiding interventions to support academic surgeons.

Objective

To identify the barriers and facilitators to clinical practice development with attention to differences related to surgeon gender.

Design, setting, and participants

A multi-institutional qualitative descriptive study was performed using semistructured interviews analyzed with a grounded theory approach. Interviews were conducte

SUBMITTER: Finn CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10585584 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature