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L C Epstein

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PubMed2000

Differences in the preparation and practice of male and female physicians from combined baccalaureate--MD degree programs.

OBJECTIVE: To account for age and premedical education in determining whether or not men and women medical school graduates differ significantly in opinions of their medical school preparation, in professional activities, and in personal qualities and values. METHODS: 727 graduates (1983-1987) of seven combined baccalaureate-MD degree programs were surveyed. Men's and women's responses were compared. RESULTS: Women graduates were more likely than men to work less than full time and to report less preparation in the basic sciences, less scholarly activity, and more concern about psychosocial issues. CONCLUSION: Differences between men and women graduates have persisted despite women's increased access to medical school. Even a special curriculum does not moderate these differences. We call on academic medicine to value humanism in health care, not just economics.

Analysis of Variance↗
PubMed1993

The status of women in medicine at the Brown University School of Medicine.

Although the number of women medical faculty appointed and promoted at the School of Medicine has increased gradually since 1987, the extent to which women have advanced in academic medicine and the timeliness of their movement forward are of concern. With women constituting nearly 20% of the medical faculty at Brown, and comprising only 5% of professorial appointments, it is easy to see the disparities. While the Brown University School of Medicine stands out as one of less than a dozen medical schools with an Office of Women in Medicine, clearly there is still much to accomplish in this domain. Progress may be accelerated through networking and advocacy promoted by professional development programs sponsored by offices for women in medicine and organizations as RIMWA. Offering women medical faculty a forum to discuss issues as departmental promotion criteria in academic medicine and to link up with other women physicians, ultimately serves not only women faculty but their institution. Providing role models is critical to assist women medical students in looking well ahead to plan for their own career development. In creating opportunities for dialogue among women in medicine at all levels in the medical school environment and among women physicians in the nearby community, institutions take an essential step forward towards supporting women's advancement in medicine.

Faculty, Medical↗
PubMed1991

A process for developing a curriculum in ethics and human values.

This article describes the process and results of the deliberations of the group of authors at the 1989 spring meeting of the Northeast Group for Educational Affairs. The participants worked under the premise that someone had given an unlimited amount of money to fund a new medical school. They had to select and define what the educational goals would be and produce a plan to help students reach these goals. There had to be an evaluation process that documented progress toward the stated goals. This paper describes the ethics and human values curriculum, which should be of interest to cancer educators. The knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes are defined and the four-year process of implementing the teaching is described. This curriculum-planning process is applicable to any aspect of cancer education--first defining the outcome, then the evaluation process, and finally, how to get to that outcome.

Curriculum↗