Fellowship program directors and trainees across the United States find parental leave policies to be inconsistent, inaccessible, and inadequate.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Determine the consistency, accessibility, and adequacy of parental leave policies for adult and pediatric medicine fellowship programs.

Methods

We administered a 40-question survey to fellowship program directors (PDs) and trainees in adult and pediatric cardiology, hematology/oncology, gastroenterology, and pulmonology/critical care fellowship programs in the United States. We used Chi-square tests to compare proportions for categorical variables and t-tests to compare means for continuous variables.

Results

A total of 190 PDs from 500 programs (38.0%) and 236 trainees from 142 programs (28.4%) responded. Most respondents did not believe that parental leave policies were accessible publicly (322/426; 75.6%), on password-protected intranet (343/426; 80.5%

SUBMITTER: Jamorabo DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8598025 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature