Purpose: Faculty attrition, particularly among female and minority faculty, is a serious
problem in academic medical settings. The reasons why faculty in academic medical …

Purpose The number of women in academic medicine has steadily increased, although
gender parity still does not exist and women leave academics at somewhat higher rates than …

Purpose: Prior research has established that women and men faculty have different
experiences in their professional and personal lives and that academic turnover can be …

Abstract Background: The Association of American Medical Colleges reports continued low
rates of female faculty as professors and in leadership positions. While attrition and …

Purpose. The percentage of women faculty at the professor level has remained at
approximately 11%. The medical community could benefit from knowing what is required to …

Purpose Vital, productive faculty are critical to academic medicine, yet studies indicate high
dissatisfaction and attrition. The authors sought to identify key personal and cultural factors …

Background: For more than two decades, national career development programs (CDPs)
have addressed underrepresentation of women faculty in academic medicine through …

Background Faculty departure can present significant intellectual costs to an institution. The
authors sought to identify the reasons for clinical and non-clinical faculty departures at one …

Objective.—To assess possible explanations for the finding that the percentage of women
medical school faculty members holding associate or full professor rank remains well below …

Objective.—To determine the gender-based career obstacles for women in an academic
department of medicine and to report the interventions to correct such obstacles (resulting …