Improving gender equity in critical care medicine: a protocol to establish priorities and strategies for implementation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

While the number of women entering medical school now equals or surpasses the number of men, gender equity in medicine has not been achieved. Women continue to be under-represented in leadership roles (eg, deans, medical chairs) and senior faculty positions. In addition, women do not enter medical specialties as often as men, which can have important implications for work environment, reimbursement and the delivery of patient care. Compared with other medical specialties (eg, anaesthesiology, dermatology, etc), critical care medicine is a medical specialty with some of the lowest representation of women. While strategies to improve gender equity in critical care medicine exist in the published literature, efforts to comprehensively synthesise, prioritise and implement

SUBMITTER: Parsons Leigh J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7295422 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature