The BMA's annual representative meeting   There must be more short stay beds   The meeting..   Seniors and juniors unite on workload   BMA divisions continue to be supported   The meeting ..   Doctors are haemorrhaging from the NHS   Medical schools at saturation point   The meeting ..   BMA stress service receives nearly 800 calls   Academic medicine is in crisis   BMJ reaches 300 000 readers   Doctors should not endorse gun licence applications   The meeting ..   Meeting criticises new asylum bill   Doctors should boycott NHS wide network   More support needed for drug dependent doctors   Advance directives should not be specific   BMA will study domestic violence   The meeting ..   Community care is not a cheap option   Supervised discharge needs to be strengthened   Doctors should not report on doctors' poor performance   Service medical officers are under threat   The meeting ..

ObjectivesBecause culture reflects leadership, the making of diverse and inclusive medical schools begins with diversity among leaders. The inclusion of women leaders remains elusive, warranting a systematic exploration of scholarship in this area. We ask: (1) What is the extent of women’s leadership in academic medicine? (2) What factors influence women’s leadership? (3) What is the impact of leadership development programmes?DesignSystematic review.Data sourcesA systematic search of six online databases (OvidMEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, the Cochrane Library and ERIC) from the earliest date available to April 2018 was conducted. Bridging searches were conducted from April 2018 until October 2019.Eligibility criteria(1) Peer-reviewed; (2) English; (3) Quantitative studies (prospective and retrospective cohort, cross-sectional and preintervention/postintervention); evaluating (4) The extent of women’s leadership at departmental, college and graduate programme levels; (5) Factors influencing women’s leadership; (6) Leadership development programmes. Quantitative studies that explored women’s leadership in journal editorial boards and professional societies and qualitative study designs were excluded.Data extraction and synthesisTwo reviewers screened retrieved data of abstracts and full-texts for eligibility, assessment and extracted study-level data independently. The included studies were objectively appraised using the Medical Education Research Quality Study Instrument with an inter-rater reliability of (κ=0.93).ResultsOf 4024 records retrieved, 40 studies met the inclusion criteria. The extent of women’s leadership was determined through gender distribution of leadership positions. Women’s leadership emergence was hindered by institutional requirements such as research productivity and educational credentials, while women’s enactment of leadership was hindered by lack of policy implementation. Leadership development programmes had a positive influence on women’s individual enactment of leadership and on medical schools’ cultures.ConclusionsScholarship on women’s leadership inadvertently produced institute-centric rather than women-centric research. More robust contextualised scholarship is needed to provide practical-recommendations; drawing on existing conceptual frameworks and using more rigorous research methods.

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Psychology’s Adaptation to Medical Schools, Teaching Hospitals, and Academic Medical Centers: The Role of Academic Medicine Organizations

Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings ◽

10.1007/s10880-005-5741-8 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 221-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Linda Garcia-Shelton ◽

Gerald Leventhal

Keyword(s):

Academic Medicine ◽

Medical Schools ◽

Academic Medical Centers ◽

Teaching Hospitals ◽

Medical Centers ◽

Academic Medical

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Leads from the MMWR. Education about adult domestic violence in U.S. and Canadian medical schools, 1987-88

JAMA ◽

10.1001/jama.261.7.972 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 261 (7) ◽

pp. 972-972

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Medical Schools

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Under Pressure

Capable Women, Incapable States ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190881894.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 82-91

Author(s):

Poulami Roychowdhury

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Criminal Justice System ◽

Justice System ◽

Poor Performance ◽

Law Enforcement Personnel ◽

Police Protection

Chapter 6 takes the reader into the halls of the Indian criminal justice system and into the lives of the police, protection officers, and court personnel who staff its offices. Law enforcement personnel faced administrative constraints on their abilities to process cases and mounting organized pressure around domestic violence allegations. These conditions undermined their ability to exercise discretion, making it difficult for them to reject women they did not like and pick “good” victims they wished to protect. And it bred a sense of victimization, the notion that they were too overburdened and besieged to do their jobs. The main outcome was thus twofold: law enforcement feared alienating organized women and articulated a discourse of disempowerment that rationalized poor performance.

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CLOSING OF MEDICAL SCHOOLS

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.97.1.a28 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 97 (1) ◽

pp. A28-A28

Author(s):

J. F. L.

Keyword(s):

Academic Medicine ◽

Training Programs ◽

Health Professions ◽

Medical Schools ◽

Nurse Training ◽

Foreign Doctors ◽

Private Philanthropy

A private study commission is urging "the wholesale closing" of US medical schools during the next decade to avert a glut of doctors. The Pew Health Professions Commission on Thursday urged a similar retrenchment ent in pharmacy schools and elimination of at least 10% of nurse training programs. It called for constricting the pipeline of foreign doctors who come to this country to train and usually wind up practicing here. . . . The provocative study, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, a private philanthropy, did not sit well with leaders of academic medicine.

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What Constitutes a Just Match?: A Reply to Murphy

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics ◽

10.1017/s0963180103121093 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 78-82

Author(s):

D. MICAH HESTER

Keyword(s):

Academic Medicine ◽

Medical Schools

In April of 2001 I published a brief commentary in the journal Academic Medicine questioning the current character and functioning of the National Residency Matching Program (or “the match,” as it is known in medical schools and teaching centers). The purpose of the article was to stimulate a rethinking of process. At 50 years old, the environment through which the match operates (and has helped to create) has changed, and as such I thought it time to ask ourselves whether or not the match, its algorithm, and, more important, the values it manifests might well need an overhaul.

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