Barriers to Advancement in Academic Medicine: the Perception Gap Between Majority Men and Other Faculty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

According to the American Association of Medical Colleges, women comprise 26% of full professors and 19% of medical school department chairs. African American and Latino faculty comprise 4.6% of full professors and 6.9% of department chairs.

Objective

Because of the lack of representation of women and racial/ethnic minority faculty at the highest levels of academic medicine, this study examines the perceptions of barriers to advancement by men and women academic medical school faculty of differing races and ethnicities to explore potential differences in perceptions by demographic group.

Design

Semi-structured one-on-one interviews were conducted between July and September 2017.

Participants

In order to give all faculty a chance to participate, facul

SUBMITTER: Bateman LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8298665 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature